David Devorkin

Robert Smith

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Oklahoma

Imaging Space and Time

"In the spirit of National Geographic's top-selling Orbit, this glorious volume tells the full story of the Hubble Space Telescope and showcases hundreds of dramatic deep-space panoramas. We're sped on an astonishing journey to the edge of the known universe - a realm of colliding galaxies, massive baby stars, and mysterious forces that scientists have barely begun to understand. Hubble: Imaging Space and Time reveals, in breathtaking color ... a colossal 50-light-year-wide view of the Carina Nebula, detailing star birth as never before; the violent interplay of galaxies, in which a giant cannibalizes its neighb remarkable visual evidence that the universe is expanding - a phenomenon first observed by astronomer Edwin Hubb important work now underway to set the stage for the Hubble's successor - the new James Webb telescope, scheduled to launch in 2013 on a quest "to the beginning of time."" "Respected space historians David DeVorkin and Robert Smith give a fascinating account of this engineering marvel, explaining how the orbiting telescope works and introducing the people - from Galileo to Edwin Hubble to today's foremost astronomers - who have shaped its development. The authors disclose the inside story of Hubble's beginnings, its controversial early days, the drama of its servicing missions, and its role in investigating deeps-pace mysteries such as the force known as "dark energy." Illuminating every discussion are the dynamic, unparalled Hubble images, reaching us across millions of light-years from a time very close to the instant when the universe was born."--BOOK JACKET.

Hubble

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Charlotte Uhlenbroek

Steve Parker

Katie Parsons

Sean Rands

Graham Scott

Elizabeth White

Kim Bryan

Frances Dipper

Tim Halliday

Rob Hume

Chris Mattison

Sanjida O'Connell

Douglas Palmer

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

Secrets of the Animal World Revealed

Exploring and explaining every aspect of animal behavior in stunning, awe-inspiring action sequences and fascinating, in-depth prose, this resource is destined to be the ultimate authority on what makes animals tick.

Animal Life

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Jeff Brendenberg

more than 250 cleaning professionals tell you how to: clean it fast, clean it right

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Ultimate Guide to Making Absolutely Anything You Own Sparkle and Shine

This book does for cleaning what Joy of Cooking did for food preparation. More than 250 experts tell you precisely how to clean more than 300 common items in and around your home.

Clean It Fast, Clean It Right

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Robin Miller

200 simple, delicious recipes to make mealtime easy

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

200 Simple, Delicious Recipes to Make Mealtime Eas

Presents recipes that are simple to make due to preplanning, turning one recipe into another, or being quick cookers, including linguine carbonara, chicken and mushroom quesadillas, and chicken piccata with olives.

Quick Fix Meals

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Annie Shannon

Dan Shannon

Over 200 Delicious Recipes and Tips to Save You Money and Stock Your Pantry

Annie and Dan Shannon, the authors of Betty Goes Vegan, are back. In their new book, they show readers how to cook creatively and thriftily with recipes, sidebars, and tips on stocking a pantry and using ingredients creatively.

Most recipes result in leftover ingredients and servings that can be reused in multiple ways, reducing waste in your kitchen while keeping your meals fresh and flavorful. Inspired by the recipes and cost-saving techniques used during the Depression and World War II and paying a vegan homage to Julia Child, The Shannons have figured out how to get the most out of what you've already invested so that you can spend less and get more. With recipes like Korean Kimchi BBQ Burgers, Vegan Yankee Pot Roast, Not-cho Everyday Chili Dogs, and Savannah Pecan Pies, Mastering the Art of Vegan Cooking offers a way to make eating vegan both affordable and delicious.

Mastering the Art of Vegan Cooking

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Andrea Immer

125 wonderful recipes to match and enjoy with wine. Contains information on wine and best food pairings.

Introduces 125 recipes for everything from soup to dessert, along with complementary wine suggestions.

Everyday Dining with Wine

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simple changes and healthy alternatives to help you thrive and glow!
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130 quick recipes and holistic tips for a healthy life

Raw and Radiant

Liz Vaccariello

Cynthia Sass

Prevention magazine is the country's most authoritative, trustworthy, and innovative source for practical health, nutrition, and fitness information. Now, its editors bring you a weight-loss plan that's specifically designed to target your number-one trouble spot: BELLY FAT. For women over 40, belly fat is incredibly stealth and incredibly stubborn. It's also the most deadly, contributing to a higher risk of heart disease, diabetes, and chronic illness than any other type of fat on your body. Finally, science has helped uncover a key dietary weapon in the fight against belly fat. Monounsaturated fatty acids, or MUFAs, help dieters lose more weight--in their bellies specifically--and keep it off longer. Flat Belly Diet! will lead you step by step, day by day, meal by meal toward a flatter belly...and a longer, healthier life.

Flat Belly Diet

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Flat belly diet eating plan companion cookbook. Over 200 recipes. Color pictures

200 New MUFA Recipes

Flat Belly Diet! Cookbook

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James Beckerman

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Design-Your-Own Weight Loss Plan

SMALL CHANGES YIELD BIG RESULTS. Many diet books present readers with a single, inflex­ible program which forces them to stay on that diet or risk another dieting failure. Rather than teaching you just one way to lose ten or twenty or even fifty pounds, The Flex Diet shows you how to lose a single pound . . . in 200 different ways. A medically proven approach to weight loss from WebMD’s heart expert, The Flex Diet allows you to create your own custom­ized weight-loss plan—one that fits your lifestyle, is full of tasty and nutritious meals, boosts energy levels, and keeps the weight off for good. Start TODAY to lose five pounds: The Flex Diet begins with a two-week phase called “Today,” when you begin to make small changes to your diet and lifestyle that will help you lose weight right now and create a blueprint to a new you. It’s as easy as keeping a food diary, taking a multivitamin, and getting more sleep. Do it EVERY DAY and lose ten more pounds: Next, three weeks of “Every Day Solutions” introduce meal plans for breakfast, lunch, and dinner with dozens of tasty recipes and complete nutritional information. Heart healthy exercise and lifestyle options let you retool your life. Get yourself started on posi­tive Every Day habits like storing leftovers before you eat, switching to skim milk, and walking during breaks at work. Have it YOUR WAY to keep inches off your waist: The “Your Way” phase offers nearly 100 more lifestyle changes and solutions that you can use to take things to the next level and continue a lifetime of slim and healthy living. The Flex Diet is an exciting new approach to a new you, your way.

The Flex Diet

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Lynne Truss

The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door

An upbeat evaluation of the way discourteous behavior has become commonplace and even applauded in today's society is a humorous call to arms that challenges ill manners and the practices that support them. By the author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. 500,000 first printing.

Talk to the Hand

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Elizabeth Gaskell

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A story of class struggle, sometimes violent, in the North West of England

Mary Barton

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Dorothy Moore

A practical handbook for teaching kids at home

Home Grows Kids

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H. Stephen Glenn

Jane Nelsen

the breakthrough program no parent or teacher can afford to ignore!

Seven Building Blocks for Developing Capable Young People

Authors H. Stephen Glenn and Jane Nelsen are real people with real answers. Each of them is a parent with many children. They know that parenting in today's self-indulgent society is not easy. As renowned educators whose seminars are attended by over 250,000 annually, they offer a fresh and common-sense approach that has struck a special chord in the hearts of parents and teachers everywhere.Those who think in terms of leniency versus strictness will be disappointed. This book goes beyond these issues to teach children to be responsible and self-reliant -- not through fear and intimidation, which are outer-directed concerns (what happens when the disciplinarian is on vacation, or asleep?) but through the maturity of feeling accountable to one's commitments (inner-directed behavior).About the Author /Jane Nelsen, Ed.D., is the bestselling author of Positive Discipline (Ballantine) and co-author of Prima's Positive Discipline series. She lives in Sacramento, California. /H. Stephen Glenn is the primary force behind the Developing Capable People movement and is the co-author of several books in the Positive Discipline series. He lives in Sacramento, California.

Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World

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Robert Brooks

Sam Goldstein

effective proven advice for rasing strong kids

Fostering Strength, Hope, and Optimism in Your Child

TOP CHILD PSYCHOLOGISTS OFFER EXPERT INSIGHT AND PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR RAISING STRONG KIDS IN TODAY'S COMPLICATED WORLD

"Thoughtful and sound in its approach, practical and clear in its suggestions, direct and supportive in its tone, Raising Resilient Children is the perfect book for parents searching for a caring method to help their children grow into healthy, happy, loving, and mature adults."­­William Pollack, Ph.D., author of Real Boys

". . . the down-to-earth strategies ensure this title will be used as well as read . . . truly valuable material." ­­Publishers Weekly

" . . . a remarkable book that pulls together the research on resilience and makes it readable, understandable, and practical."­­Work and Family Life

"A very important work. This not-to-be-missed book debunks the paradigm ('Good enough for me: I turned out OK') and replaces it with a new model fostering resilience capable of meeting obstacles head-on."­­Library Journal (starred review)

Raising Resilient Children

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Ross Mountney

Home Education

This book explains what home education is; the advantages and disadvantages of this route; how to begin home educating; what you need to do and how to help your child adjust; and how home education affects children's social skills and friendships. It also covers technical aspects, such as the curriculum, core subjects, exams and timetables.

Learning Without School

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Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer

Tools and tactics for parents who want to help children help themselves

Over 100 Tips for Parents and Teachers

An expert on parenting shares her model for motivating children to eventually become self-motivators, using colorful examples to illustrate her points while encouraging parents to teach self-starting behavior in school and friendships, as well as other important areas of life. Original. 50,000 first printing.

Raising a Self-Starter

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Jenifer Fox

The key to children's sucess is to focus on their strengths.

A Guide for Parents and Teachers

With this groundbreaking work, renowned educator Jenifer Fox argues against the flawed and maddening paradigm that "fixing"kids' weaknesses is the way to achieve success. Rather, Fox promotes focusing on kids' natural inclinations in three interdependent areas: Activity Strengths, Relationship Strengths, and Learning Strengths. Pairing inspiring firsthand accounts of success with practical workbook tools, alongside an outline of the award-winning strengths-based Affinities curriculum Fox has implemented in her own school, Your Child's Strengths is a user-friendly and indispensable guide for parents, teachers, and administrators alike.

Your Child's Strengths

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The story of a brilliant English seamstress taken prisoner in Germany during World War II: about her perseverance, the choices she makes to stay alive, and the haunting aftermath of war.

The Dressmaker's War

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Breaking her personal code to date a charming patient, Sophie Brinkmann discovers that he is the head of a powerful international crime organization warring against a ruthless German syndicate, a situation that pits her against an itinerant arms dealer, a disturbed detective, a vicious hit man and a wily police chief. 100,000 first printing.

The Andalucian Friend

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InSee Now Then, the brilliant and evocative new novel from Jamaica Kincaid--her first in ten years--a marriage is revealed in all its joys and agonies. This piercing examination of the manifold ways in which the passing of time operates on the human consciousness unfolds gracefully, and Kincaid inhabits each of her characters--a mother, a father, and their two children, living in a small village in New England--as they move, in their own minds, between the present, the past, and the future: for, as she writes, "the present will be now then and the past is now then and the future will be a now then." Her characters, constrained by the world, despair in their domestic situations. But their minds wander, trying to make linear sense of what is, in fact, nonlinear.See Now Thenis Kincaid's attempt to make clear what is unclear, and to make unclear what we assumed was clear: that is, the beginning, the middle, and the end.
Since the publication of her first short-story collection,At the Bottom of the River, which was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Kincaid has demonstrated a unique talent for seeing beyond and through the surface of things. InSee Now Then, she envelops the reader in a world that is both familiar and startling--creating her most emotionally and thematically daring work yet.

See Now Then

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"TWO ACROSS is a funny and poignant debut novel about trust, forgiveness, and the wisdom of listening to your heart. Stanley and Vera, academically precocious but awkward teenagers, form a bond when they tie for first place in the National Spelling Bee. Though their mothers have big plans for them-Stanley will become a senator, Vera a mathematics professor-neither wants to follow these pre-determined paths. So Stanley hatches a plan to marry Vera in a sham wedding for the financial freedom to pursue his one true love: crossword puzzle construction. In enlisting Vera to marry him, he neglects one variable: she's secretly in love with him, a fact that dooms his plan to disaster. Once he's lost her, Stanley tries to atone for his mistakes and win her back using coded messages in crossword puzzles-but can he find her again before it's too late?"--

Two Across

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In the latest installment in Michael Harvey's beloved Michael Kelly series, Chicago's favorite Ovid-reading, gun-toting private investigator takes on Illinois's first family in a blistering thriller that charts the border where ambition ends and evil begins.

It's been two years since disgraced Illinois governor Ray Perry disappeared from a federal courthouse in Chicago moments after being sentenced to thirty-seven years in prison on corruption charges. P.I. Michael Kelly is sitting in his office when he gets an anonymous e-mail offering to pay him nearly a quarter of a million dollars if he will find Perry, no questions asked. Kelly's investigation begins with the woman Ray Perry left behind--his wife, Marie. Ostracized by her former friends and hounded by the feds, Marie tells Kelly she has no idea where her husband is. Like everyone else, Kelly doesn't believe her. As he hunts for her husband, Kelly begins to unwind Marie Perry's past. What he finds is a woman who turns out to be even more intriguing than her husband, with her own deeply complicated reasons for standing by him. Everyone in Chicago has secrets, including the governor's wife. Some of them she shared with her husband. Some of them she kept to herself. And some of them could get Michael Kelly killed.

The Governor's Wife is a hard-eyed look at the intersection of the political and the personal, at the perils of trusting even those closest to us, and the collateral damage of our highest aspirations. Stylish, knock-out suspense from a modern master.

The Governor's Wife

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A Novel

"How good's the big twist? You won't see it coming."--Entertainment Weekly
"Terrific...an unpredictable and unsettling familial drama that has drawn comparisons to the novels of Gillian Flynn and fellow Dubliner Tana French."--Kirkus Reviews
When a couple's lost child resurfaces they are forced to embark on a journey into their shared past--one rife with dark secrets and lies
Tangiers. Harry is preparing his wife's birthday dinner while she is still at work and their son, Dillon, is upstairs asleep in bed. Harry suddenly remembers that he's left Robin's gift at the café in town. It's only a five minute walk away and Dillon's so tricky to put down for the night, so Harry decides to run out on his own and fetch the present.
Disaster strikes. An earthquake hits, buildings crumble, people scream and run. Harry fights his way through the crowd to his house, only to find it razed to the ground. Dillon is presumed dead, though his body is never found.
Five years later, Harry and Robin have settled into a new kind of life after relocating to their native Dublin. Their grief will always be with them, but lately it feels as if they're ready for a new beginning. Harry's career as an artist is taking off and Robin has just realized that she's pregnant.
But when Harry gets a glimpse of Dillon on the crowded streets of Dublin, the past comes rushing back at both of them. Has Dillon been alive all these years? Or was what Harry saw just a figment of his guilt-ridden imagination? With razor-sharp writing, Karen Perry'sThe Innocent Sleep delivers a fast-paced, ingeniously plotted thriller brimming with deception, doubt, and betrayal.

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