Edwidge Danticat

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maine

An unforgettable novel that shimmers with the wonder and terror of its author's native Haiti. Set in the island's impoverished villages and in New York's Haitian community, this is the story of Sophie Caco, who was conceived in an act of violence, abandoned by her mother and then summoned to America. In New York, Sophie discovers that Haiti imposes harsh rules on its own. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Breath, Eyes, Memory

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Guy Adams

Sherlock Holmes teams up with real-life occultist Aleister Crowley and ghost hunter Thomas Carnacki in Scotland for an investigation touched by the supernatural When several leading society figures begin acting out of character, Holmes is enlisted on an investigation that will see him team up with famed ghost hunter Thomas Carnacki, and the famous occultist Aleister Crowley. As London fills up with mindless zombies, possessed by the spirits in the air, Holmes must descend beneath the city via the new underground train network to combat the source. Sherlock Holmes: The Breath of God is a brand-new original novel, detailing a thrilling new case for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless creation.

Sherlock Holmes: the Breath of God

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Roberta Rich

At midnight, the dogs, cats, and rats rule Venice. The Ponte di Ghetto Nuovo, the bridge that leads to the ghetto, trembles under the weight of sacks of rotting vegetables, rancid fat, and vermin. Shapeless matter, perhaps animal, floats to the surface of Rio di San Girolamo and hovers on its greasy waters. Through the mist rising from the canal the cries and grunts of foraging pigs echo. Seeping refuse on the streets renders the pavement slick and the walking treacherous. 

It was on such a night that the men came for Hannah.

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Hannah Levi is known throughout sixteenth-century Venice for her skill in midwifery. When a Christian count appears at Hannah's door in the Jewish ghetto imploring her to attend his labouring wife, who is nearing death, Hannah is forced to make a dangerous decision. Not only is it illegal for Jews to render medical treatment to Christians, it's also punishable by torture and death. Moreover, as her Rabbi angrily points out, if the mother or child should die, the entire ghetto population will be in peril.

But Hannah's compassion for another woman's misery overrides her concern for self-preservation. The Rabbi once forced her to withhold care from her shunned sister, Jessica, with terrible consequences. Hannah cannot turn away from a labouring woman again. Moreover, she cannot turn down the enormous fee offered by the Conte. Despite the Rabbi's protests, she knows that this money can release her husband, Isaac, a merchant who was recently taken captive on Malta as a slave. There is nothing Hannah wants more than to see the handsome face of the loving man who married her despite her lack of dowry, and who continues to love her despite her barrenness. She must save Isaac.

Meanwhile, far away in Malta, Isaac is worried about Hannah's safety, having heard tales of the terrifying plague ravaging Venice. But his own life is in terrible danger. He is auctioned as a slave to the head of the local convent, Sister Assunta, who is bent on converting him to Christianity. When he won't give up his faith, he's traded to the brutish lout Joseph, who is renowned for working his slaves to death. Isaac soon learns that Joseph is heartsick over a local beauty who won't give him the time of day. Isaac uses his gifts of literacy and a poetic imagination--not to mention long-pent-up desire--to earn his day-to-day survival by penning love letters on behalf of his captor and a paying illiterate public.

Back in Venice, Hannah packs her ""birthing spoons"--secret rudimentary forceps she invented to help with difficult births--and sets off with the Conte and his treacherous brother. Can she save the mother? Can she save the baby, on whose tiny shoulders the Conte's legacy rests? And can she also save herself, and Isaac, and their own hopes for a future, without endangering the lives of everyone in the ghetto?

The Midwife of Venice is a gripping historical page-turner, enthralling readers with its suspenseful action and vivid depiction of life in sixteenth-century Venice. Roberta Rich has created a wonderful heroine in Hannah Levi, a lioness who will fight for the survival of the man she loves, and the women and babies she is duty-bound to protect, carrying with her the best of humanity's compassion and courage.

The Midwife of Venice

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Sara Gruen

A Novel

Water for Elephants

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James Bradley

Ron Powers

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Chronicles one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, focusing on the men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima.

Flags of Our Fathers

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Richard Bachman

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

On a perfect summer afternoon in Wentworth, Ohio, many of the citizens who live on Poplar Street are killed mysteriously, and at the center of the mystery is a young boy named Seth Garon, whose supernatural powers are just awakening. 1,250,000 first printing. Lit Guild, Doubleday, & Mystery Guild Main.

The Regulators

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A Matter Of Honor

Jayne Ann Krentz

Thornquist Gear, Inc. CEO Joel Blackstone reluctantly agrees to teach midwestern librarian Letitia Thornquist the business after her uncle wills her the sporting goods company, but he does not count on romance in the office and after hours. Reissue.

Perfect Partners

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Gloria Murphy

In the tradition of V.C. Andrews and Mary Higgins Clark, here is a tale of cunningly crafted domestic terror by the author of the bestseller A Whisper in the Attic. With a defenseless family in a new, danger-fraught neighborhood, a single mother turns to the most dangerous person of all for help.

A Shadow on the Stair

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Agent out of place

Mary Jo Adamson

In the first book in this gripping historical mystery series, Boston police reporter Michael Merrick investigates a series of fires--one of which led to murder--within a local Shaker community. "An engaging detective story peopled with striking characters".--"Publishers Weekly".

Blazing Tree

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Terry Wardle

An Unforgettable Story of Profound Brokenness and Breathtaking Grace

An unforgettable story, in the tradition of Hillbilly Elegy and Educated, that reveals how a careful look at a broken past can open a path to profound healing and a satisfying future. This is the intriguing story of the arduous childhood of a miner's son growing up in the Appalachian coalfields of southwestern Pennsylvania. The brokenness of Terry Wardle's early life led to problems in adulthood that brought him to confinement in a psychiatric hospital. But that was not the end--in time Wardle experienced an emotional and spiritual transformation that began a journey toward greater health and personal freedom. So what does a man whose life was shaped by an often affectionate, sometimes hilarious, and always dysfunctional family have to share with all of us? Some Kind of Crazy is alternately, funny, tragic, insightful, and deeply biblical, a riveting book that will lead you to a place where God may touch and heal your own brokenness, whatever form it may take.

Some Kind of Crazy

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Barbara Gowdy

Ulrike Becker

Roman

Die neunjährige Rachel ist das große Glück in Celia Fox's Leben. Ein Kind aus einer Liebesnacht, den Vater hat sie danach nie wieder gesehen. Ein auffallend schönes und aufgewecktes Mädchen, das alle Blicke auf sich zieht, nicht nur die von Fotografen, die auf der Suche nach Models sind. Blicke, die Celia beunruhigen. Rachel weiß das und verheimlicht ihrer Mutter, dass da ein Mann in einem weißen Lieferwagen vor ihrem Haus parkt, derselbe, den sie schon vor ihrer Schule bemerkt hat. Was ist das für ein Mann, der einen Reparaturdienst für Haushaltsgeräte hat, alte Staubsauger sammelt und so oft es geht vor Schulhöfen parkt, um kleine Mädchen zu beobachten? Der einsam ist und sensibel und plötzlich von einer so heftigen Liebe zu einem Kind ergriffen wird, dass er es für sich haben will? Ein Monster?

Hilflos

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3 book bundle, scholoastic books, magic and fantasy young readers

The apothacary, Claws, Wolf Princess

3 book bundle

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Tales of a not so graceful ice-princess

Dork diaries 

Veronique Vienne

Erica Lennard

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Simple Ways to Make Time for Yourself

The Art of Doing Nothing
Simple Ways to Make Time for Yourself

A culture of overachievers, we make things happen--and happen fast. While rushing along, though, the days seem to get shorter and shorter. If only time would hold still, just a little bit, to let us savor life's simplest moments. . . .
The Art of Doing Nothing will help to ease these beat-the-clock jitters. The stress-reducing techniques described here require no time, no skill, no commitment. A practical guide to rest and relaxation, it ushers us into a world where "being" is more compelling than "doing."

Beautifully illustrated with Erica Lennard's photographs, The Art of Doing Nothing gives us permission to celebrate idleness in all its mesmerizing forms. Véronique Vienne's delightfully informative essays on the art of breathing, meditating, bathing, listening, waiting, and more offer useful tips on such skills as how to whistle, stay in the moment, take a nap, cure a cold, or watch the sun set over the horizon. Without further ado--and without feeling guilty--we learn to unwind, exhale, and, yes, stop and smell the roses.

Like Ira Gershwin, you will be delighted to discover that you've got plenty of nothin', and that nothin's plenty for you.

The Art of Doing Nothing

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Catherine Coulter

When sophisticated, wealthy Sydney Fox marries the suave, jet-setting Prince Alessandro Di Contini, everything seems perfect, until the Prince rapes his wife's sister, Lindsay Fox, a crime that triggers a deadly chain of events.

Beyond Eden

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James Patterson

Gabrielle Charbonnet

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The successful but lonely daughter of a powerful New York theater icon falls for her imaginary friend in this touching love story. Jane Margaux is a lonely little girl. Her mother, a powerful Broadway producer, makes time for her only once a week, for their Sunday trip to admire jewelry at Tiffany's. Jane has only one friend: a handsome, comforting, funny man named Michael. He's perfect. But only she can see him. Michael can't stay forever, though. On Jane's ninth birthday he leaves, promising her that she'll soon forget him. Years later, in her thirties, Jane is just as alone as she was as a child. And despite her own success as a playwright, she is even more trapped by her overbearing mother. Then she meets someone-a handsome, comforting, funny man. He's perfect. His name is Michael . . .

Sundays at Tiffany's

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Elizabeth Wetmore

Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s. Mercy is hard in a place like this . . . It's February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town's men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow. In the early hours of the morning after Valentine's Day, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramírez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead's ranch house, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil field--an act of brutality that is tried in the churches and barrooms of Odessa before it can reach a court of law. When justice is evasive, one of the town's women decides to take matters into her own hands, setting the stage for a showdown with potentially devastating consequences. Valentine is a haunting exploration of the intersections of violence and race, class and region in a story that plumbs the depths of darkness and fear, yet offers a window into beauty and hope. Told through the alternating points of view of indelible characters who burrow deep in the reader's heart, this fierce, unflinching, darkly funny, and surprisingly tender novel illuminates women's strength and vulnerability, and reminds us that it is the stories we tell ourselves that keep us alive.

Valentine

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Magdalena Zyzak

A story of love and adventure in an imaginary Slavic nation on the brink of historic change-the debut of a ribald and raucous new literary voice. Set in the quaint (though admittedly backward) fictional nation of Scalvusia in 1939, The Ballad of Barnabas Pierkiel follows the exploits of a young swineherd with romantic delusions of grandeur. Desperate to attract the voluptuous Roosha, the Gypsy concubine of the local boot-and-shoe magnate, Barnabas and his short-legged steed Wilhelm get embroiled in a series of scandals and misadventures, as every attempt at wooing ends in catastrophe. After the mysterious death of an important figure in the community, a witch-hunt ensues, and a stranger falls from the sky. Barnabas begins to see the terrible tide of history turning in his beloved hometown. The wonderfully eccentric supporting cast includes a priest driven mad by a fig tree, a gang of louts who taunt our reluctant hero at every turn, and a dim-witted vagabond with a goat for a wife. Even as her characters brush up against one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century, Magdalena Zyzak's humor and prose delight in the absurdities of the human animal.

The Ballad of Barnabas Pierkiel

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Robin Jarvis

The year is 1664 when young Will Godwin comes to London. In order to survive, he becomes an assistant to a wicked alchemist, Elias Theophratus Spittle. On an errand one freezing night, Will finds a mother cat and her three kittens, and brings the family back to his master's lab. Among the bubbling bottles and evil smelling jars of his master's apothecary shop unfolds an extraordinary tale of villainy, sorcery, and murder. The Deptford Mice trilogy witnessed the harrowing battles between the mice of Deptford and Jupiter, lord of darkness and treacherous disguises. Now in this gripping prequel, Jupiter's secret history is revealed.

The Alchemist's Cat

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The Deptford Mice Trilogy

An innocent mouse lies dead in a moonlit field, as the screech of an owl echoes across the ripening corn. Long, thin claws tighten around the neck of another mouse. And then another. Fleeing the horrors of the city's rat-infested sewers, the Deptford Mice take to the countryside, only to become embroiled in a series of murders. The country mice point their fingers at young, outspoken Audrey. With each death, their anger toward her boils with greater frenzy. But the simple village folk do not understand the dark forces reaching from the netherworld. The truth is far more sinister. Book One of The Deptford Mice trilogy-The Dark Portal-told the tale of terrible Jupiter, Lord of the sewers. The battle with evil is not yet over. Book jacket.

The Crystal Prison

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Jon Voelkel

Pamela Voelkel

With the end of the Mayan calendar fast approaching, fourteen-year-old Max Murphy and his new friend Lola, the modern Maya girl who saved his life in the perilous jungle, are racing against time to outwit the twelve Lords of Death.

The End of the World Club

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Dave Deluca

Wisdom from India's Beloved Scriptures, Teachers, Masters, and Monks

"This anthology is meant to give lovers of yoga a reference book in which they will be able to easily find cherished passages from some of the most revered yoga scriptures and commentary in India's history"--Introd.

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Edwidge Danticat

Breath, Eyes, Memory

Guy Adams

Sherlock Holmes: the Breath of God

Roberta Rich

The Midwife of Venice

Sara Gruen

Water for Elephants

James Bradley; Ron Powers

Flags of Our Fathers

Richard Bachman

The Regulators

Jeffery Archer

A Matter Of Honor

Jayne Ann Krentz

Perfect Partners

Gloria Murphy

A Shadow on the Stair

Irving A. Greenfield

Agent out of place

Mary Jo Adamson

Blazing Tree

Terry Wardle

Some Kind of Crazy

Barbara Gowdy; Ulrike Becker

Hilflos

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3 book bundle

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Dork diaries

Veronique Vienne; Erica Lennard

The Art of Doing Nothing

Catherine Coulter

Beyond Eden

James Patterson; Gabrielle Charbonnet

Sundays at Tiffany's

Elizabeth Wetmore

Valentine

Magdalena Zyzak

The Ballad of Barnabas Pierkiel

Robin Jarvis

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Jon Voelkel; Pamela Voelkel

The End of the World Club

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