John Berendt

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Virginia

Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case. It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman's Card Club; the turbulent young redneck gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the "soul of pampered self-absorption"; the uproariously funny black drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young blacks dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story is a sublime and seductive reading experience. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, this enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city is certain to become a modern classic.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

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Frances Park

Ginger Park

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The True Story of Two Sisters, Tons of Treats, and the Little Shop That Could

When their beloved father died suddenly, authors Frances and Ginger Park (To Swim Across the World) comforted themselves with chocolates and mused on opening a confectionery shop with their small inheritance. The idea felt right to them--"a shop our late father would've loved just by virtue of its contents: chocolates and daughters"--and despite their inexperience, they decide to go for it, with their mother as silent partner. In 1984, on the day f their Washington, D.C., store, named Chocolate Chocolate, opened, they already were beset with difficulties, from crumbling walls and cracking floors installed by a shoddy, shady contractor to trying to conjure strategies to gain attention and sales. Bit by bit, their clientele grows; the sisters write fondly and often humorously of the recurring characters in their new, chocolate-centric lives, from favorite customers to the kooky sales rep who becomes an employee and dear friend. They easily move between musings on friendship and family, all the while offering inspiration and valuable lessons for budding entrepreneurs. The recipe for their house truffle rounds out this appealing, engaging memoir that's sure to appeal to a range of readers, chocoholics or not. --Publishers Weekly

*signed* Chocolate Chocolate

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Alice Randall

In a brilliant rejoinder and an inspired act of literary invention, Alice Randall explodes the world created in Margaret Mitchell's famous 1936 novel, the work that more than any other has defined our image of the antebellum South. Imagine simply that the black characters peopling that world were completely different, not egregious, one-dimensional stereotypes but fully alive, complex human beings. And then imagine, quite plausibly, that at the center of this world moves an illegitimate mulatto woman, and that this woman, Cynara, Cinnamon, or Cindy -- beautiful and brown -- gets to tell her story.
Cindy is born into a world in which she is unacknowledged by her plantation-owning father and passed over by her mother in favor of her white charges. Sold off like so much used furniture, she eventually makes her way back to Atlanta to take up with a prominent white businessman, only to leave him for an aspiring politician of her own color. Moving from the Deep South to the exhilarating freedom of Reconstruction Washington, with its thriving black citizenry of statesmen, professionals, and strivers of every persuasion, Cindy experiences firsthand the promise of the new era at its dizzying peak, just before it begins to slip away.
Alluding to events in Mitchell's novel but ingeniously and ironically transforming them, THE WIND DONE GONE is an exquisitely written, emotionally complex story of a strong, resourceful black woman breaking away from the damaging world of the Old South to emerge into her own, a person capable of not only receiving but giving love, as daughter, lover, and mother. A passionate love story, a wrenching portrait of a tangled mother-daughter relationship, and a book that gives a voice tothose history has silenced, THE WIND DONE GONE is an elegant literary achievement of significant political force and a novel whose time has finally come.

The Wind Done Gone

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Sally Bayley

'Reading is a form of escape and an avid reader is an escape artist...' Growing up in a dilapidated house by the sea where men were forbidden, Sally's childhood world was filled with mystery and intrigue. Hippies trailed through the kitchen looking for God - their leader was Aunt Di, who ruled the house with charismatic force. When Sally's baby brother vanishes from his pram, she becomes suspicious of the activities going on around her. What happened to Baby David and the woman called Poor Sue? And where did all the people singing and wailing prayers in the front room suddenly go? Disappearing into a world of books and reading, Sally adopts the tried and tested methods of Miss Marple. Taking books for hints and clues, she turns herself into a reading detective. Her discovery of Jane Eyre marks the beginning of a vivid journey through Victorian literature where she also finds the kind, eccentric figure of Charles Dickens' Betsey Trotwood. These characters soon become her heroines, acting as a part of an alternative family, offering humour and guidance during many difficult moments in Sally's life. Combining the voices of literary characters with those of her real-life counterparts, Girl With Dove reads as a magical series of strange encounters, climaxing with a comic performance of Shakespeare in the children's home where Sally is eventually sent. Weaving literary classics with a young girl's coming of age story, this is a book that testifies to the transformative power of reading and the literary imagination. Mixing fairy tale, literary classics, nursery rhymes and folklore, it is the story of a child's adventure in wonderland and search for truth in an adult world often cast in deep shadow.

Girl with Dove: a Life Built by Books

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Michael Bishop

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Transfigurations

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Vicki Leon

Rebellious Belles, Daring Dames, and Headstrong Heroines Through the Ages

4,000 Years of Uppity Women

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Richard Carlson

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Simple Ways to Create Abundance and Have Fun

Newly repackaged and updated! This #1 national bestseller offers you practical advice on how to achieve financial success by eliminating stress, worry, anger, and fear. In this practical and simple book, Richard Carlson turns his attention to two of the most important issues in our daily lives-stress and making money. Newly repackaged and updated with 10 new essays, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff About Money offers 100 brilliant strategies for living more fully and worrying les as a means of attracting more wealth into our lives.

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff about Money

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Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking over Your Life

Braille edition of the popular bestseller. "Let go of the idea that gentle, relaxed people can't be super-achievers," advises Dr. Richard Carlson in his widely popular self-help book, DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF. In 100 chapters--each only a few pages long--Dr. Carlson shares his ideas for living a calmer, richer life. This book has been on the New York Times bestseller list for 38 weeks and is No. 3 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list. Two small volumes in braille.

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and It's All Small Stuff

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A Treasury of Lyric Verse

Love Poems

Martha W. Hickman

Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief

The classic guide for dealing with grief and loss

For those who have suffered the loss of a loved one, here are thoughtful words to strengthen, inspire and comfort.

Healing after Loss:

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Max Strom

A Yoga Master's Handbook of Strength, Grace, and Healing

In this inspiring work, yogi Strom looks beyond the often written about philosophies of yoga to what he sees as the purpose of this practice: to help with the journey within.

A Life Worth Breathing

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Anna H. Dickson

Although his extreme bashfulness sometimes prevents Mr. Snuffle-upagus from enjoying himself, his Sesame Street friends keep telling him, "Don't be shy!"

Don't Be Shy

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Joan Edelman Spero

The Politics of International Economic Relations

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Henry Ledgard

Michael Marcotty

Computer Science

The Programming Language Landscape

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

Douglas Adams

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon."--The Washington Post Book World

SOON TO BE A HULU SERIES * Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read

It's an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent . . . until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly after to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and Arthur's best friend has just announced that he's an alien.

After that, things get much, much worse.

With just a towel, a small yellow fish, and a book, Arthur has to navigate through a very hostile universe in the company of a gang of unreliable aliens. Luckily the fish is quite good at languages. And the book is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . . . which helpfully has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large, friendly letters on its cover.

Douglas Adams's mega-selling pop-culture classic sends logic into orbit, plays havoc with both time and physics, offers up pithy commentary on such things as ballpoint pens, potted plants, and digital watches . . . and, most important, reveals the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything.

Now, if you could only figure out the question. . . .

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Susan Anderson

Surviving Through and Recovering from the Five Stages That Accompany the Loss of Love

The fear of abandonment is one of our most primal fears, and deservedly so. Its pain is often overwhelming, and can leave its mark on the rest of your life. In the midst of the hurt, it’s hard to see an end to your feelings of rejection, shame, and betrayal. In this updated edition of the groundbreaking book, Susan Anderson, a therapist who has specialized in helping people with loss, heartbreak, and abandonment for more than thirty years, shares recent discoveries in neuroscience that help put your pain in perspective. It is designed to help all victims of emotional breakups—whether you are suffering from a recent loss, or a lingering wound from the past; whether you are caught up in patterns that sabotage your own relationships, or you’re in a relationship in which you no longer feel loved. From the first stunning blow to starting over, it provides a complete program for abandonment recovery. Going beyond comforting words to promote real change, this healing process will help you work through the five universal stages of abandonment—shattering, withdrawal, internalizing, rage, lifting—by understanding their biochemical and behavioral origins and implications. New hands-on exercises for improving your life will teach you how to manage the inevitable pain, then go on to build a whole new concept of self, increase your capacity for love, and find new love on a deeper and richer level than ever before.

The Journey from Abandonment to Healing: Revised and Updated

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Better Homes and Gardens Editors

Cooking for Today

Information on preparing vegetarian dishes is accompanied by recipes for meatless entrees, soups, salads, and sandwiches, some of which contain eggs or dairy products.

Vegetarian Recipes

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Wiley J. Smith

Over 1000 Bean Recipes

The Little Mountain Bean Bible Cookbook

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Margot Lee Shetterly

New York Times bestselling author Margot Lee Shetterly’s book is now available in a new edition perfect for young readers. This is the amazing true story of four African-American female mathematicians at NASA who helped achieve some of the greatest moments in our space program. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner. Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. This book brings to life the stories of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, four African-American women who lived through the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the movement for gender equality, and whose work forever changed the face of NASA and the country.

Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition

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Ron Chernow

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Alexander Hamilton

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Sally Morningstar

(Book and Cards)

Develop your hidden intuitive skills and discover Wiccan wisdom with this beautifully illustrated divinatory deck and guidebook pack. Featuring key Wiccan symbols and archetypes, the cards help you connect to a place of deep inner knowledge to find the answers you seek. Each card represents a quality of energy and carries its own particular meaning in a reading, while "high notes and low notes" offer insight into the possibilities and pitfalls you're likely to encounter on your present course. Including fascinating background on the history of Wicca and the Wiccan festivals through the year, along with a selection of card spreads to address all types of enquiry, The Witches' Oracle will help you develop your intuitive skills and weave magic into your life as you set out on your quest for guidance. Replaces ISBN 978-1-85906-380-4

The Witches' Oracle

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Edward J. Renehan

The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons

Though reviled for more than a century as Wall Street's greatest villain, Jay Gould was in fact its most original creative genius. Gould was the robber baron's robber baron, the most astute financial and business strategist of his time and also the most widely hated. In Dark Genius of Wall Street, acclaimed biographer Edward J. Renehan, Jr., combines lively anecdotes with the rich social tapestry of the Gilded Age to paint the portrait of the most talented financial buccaneer of his generation-- and one of the inventors of modern business.

Dark Genius of Wall Street

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William Gibson

A text of the television play, intended for reading, of Anne Sullivan Macy's attempts to teach her pupil, Helen Keller, to communicate.

The Miracle Worker

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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

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*signed* Chocolate Chocolate

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The Wind Done Gone

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Girl with Dove: a Life Built by Books

Michael Bishop

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Richard Carlson

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff about Money

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Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and It's All Small Stuff

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Martha W. Hickman

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Max Strom

A Life Worth Breathing

Anna H. Dickson

Don't Be Shy

Joan Edelman Spero

The Politics of International Economic Relations

Henry Ledgard; Michael Marcotty

The Programming Language Landscape

Nathaniel Philbrick

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Susan Anderson

The Journey from Abandonment to Healing: Revised and Updated

Better Homes and Gardens Editors

Vegetarian Recipes

Wiley J. Smith

The Little Mountain Bean Bible Cookbook

Margot Lee Shetterly

Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition

Ron Chernow

Alexander Hamilton

Sally Morningstar

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Edward J. Renehan

Dark Genius of Wall Street

William Gibson

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