Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

Progress Against Prejudice

Robert Sabuda

Cover has some scuffs and marks but the pop ups all seem to be fine. There's even a little mini pop up book inside! 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

America the Beautiful

Using his classic signature white pop-ups, Sabuda brings to life some of the most famous images of the American skyline. From the Golden Gate Bridge to Mount Rushmore and New York's Twin Towers, America has never looked more beautiful.

America the Beautiful Pop Up Book

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Diana Gabaldon

An Outlander Graphic Novel

Retells in graphic novel format the first Outlander novel from Jamie Fraser's point of view, revealing events never seen in the original story.

The Exile

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Christina Hammonds Reed

A New York Times bestseller “Should be required reading in every classroom.” —Nic Stone, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin “A true love letter to Los Angeles.” —Brandy Colbert, award-winning author of Little & Lion “A brilliantly poetic take on one of the most defining moments in Black American history.” —Tiffany D. Jackson, author of Grown and Monday’s Not Coming Perfect for fans of The Hate U Give, this unforgettable coming-of-age debut novel explores issues of race, class, and violence through the eyes of a wealthy black teenager whose family gets caught in the vortex of the 1992 Rodney King Riots. Los Angeles, 1992 Ashley Bennett and her friends are living the charmed life. It’s the end of senior year and they’re spending more time at the beach than in the classroom. They can already feel the sunny days and endless possibilities of summer. Everything changes one afternoon in April, when four LAPD officers are acquitted after beating a black man named Rodney King half to death. Suddenly, Ashley’s not just one of the girls. She’s one of the black kids. As violent protests engulf LA and the city burns, Ashley tries to continue on as if life were normal. Even as her self-destructive sister gets dangerously involved in the riots. Even as the model black family façade her wealthy and prominent parents have built starts to crumble. Even as her best friends help spread a rumor that could completely derail the future of her classmate and fellow black kid, LaShawn Johnson. With her world splintering around her, Ashley, along with the rest of LA, is left to question who is the us? And who is the them?

The Black Kids

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Christy Turlington Burns

Redefining Motherhood to Fit Reality

In an era of mommy blogs, Pinterest, and Facebook, The Good Mother Myth dismantles the social media–fed notion of what it means to be a “good mother.” This collection of essays takes a realistic look at motherhood and provides a platform for real voices and raw stories, each adding to the narrative of motherhood we don’t tend to see in the headlines or on the news. From tales of mind-bending, panic-inducing overwhelm to a reflection on using weed instead of wine to deal with the terrible twos, the honesty of the essays creates a community of mothers who refuse to feel like they’re in competition with others, or with the notion of the ideal mom—they’re just trying to find a way to make it work. With a foreword by Christy Turlington Burns and a contributor list that includes Jessica Valenti, Sharon Lerner, Soraya Chemaly, Amber Dusick, and many more, this remarkable collection seeks to debunk the myth and offer honest perspectives on what it means to be a mother.

The Good Mother Myth

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Rival Crock Pot Cooking 

Janice Biniok

One hardcover,one paperback. DVD is fine.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Easy to train and eager to please, Doberman pinschers are talented and versatile working dogs.

 Lot of 2 Doberman Pinscher Care & Training plus dvd

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Emily Ansara Baines

From Lamb Stew to &quot;Groosling&quot; - More Than 150 Recipes Inspired by the Hunger Games Trilogy

The Unofficial Hunger Games Cookbook

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Walter Mosley

"Easy Rawlins returns to solve a mystery set amid the flames of the hottest summer L.A. has ever seen." "Just after devastating riots tear through Los Angeles in 1965 - when anger is high and fear still smolders everywhere - the police turn up at Easy Rawlins's doorstep. He expects the worst, as usual. But they've come to ask for his help." "A man was wrenched from his car by a mob at the riots' peak and escaped into a nearby apartment building. Soon afterward, a redheaded woman known as Little Scarlet was found dead in that building - and the fleeing man is the obvious suspect. But the man has vanished." "The police fear that their presence in certain neighborhoods could spark a new inferno, so they ask Easy Rawlins to see what he can discover. The vanished man is the key, but he is only the beginning. Easy enlists the help of his longtime friend Mouse to break through the shroud. And what Easy finds is a killer whose rage, like that which burned in the city for weeks, is intrinsically woven around deep-set passions - feelings echoed within Easy himself." "Rawlins's hunt for the killer reveals a new city emerging from the ashes, with the promise of a new life for Easy, Mouse, and his old friends Jackson Blue and Jewelle."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Little Scarlet

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Robert Peterson

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A History of Legendary Black Players and All-Black Professional Teams

Tells the forgotten story of Black star-quality athletes excluded from professional baseball because of the big league's color line.

Only the Ball Was White

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Christopher Emdin

#education #diversity #inclusion  #DEI #antiracism 

Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education

A New York Times Best Seller Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new approach to teaching and learning for every stakeholder in urban education. Drawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in classrooms as a young man of color and merging his experiences with more than a decade of teaching and researching in urban America, award-winning educator Christopher Emdin offers a new lens on an approach to teaching and learning in urban schools. For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood...and the Rest of Y’all Too is the much-needed antidote to traditional top-down pedagogy and promises to radically reframe the landscape of urban education for the better. He begins by taking to task the perception of urban youth of color as unteachable, and he challenges educators to embrace and respect each student’s culture and to reimagine the classroom as a site where roles are reversed and students become the experts in their own learning. Putting forth his theory of Reality Pedagogy, Emdin provides practical tools to unleash the brilliance and eagerness of youth and educators alike—both of whom have been typecast and stymied by outdated modes of thinking about urban education. With this fresh and engaging new pedagogical vision, Emdin demonstrates the importance of creating a family structure and building communities within the classroom, using culturally relevant strategies like hip-hop music and call-and-response, and connecting the experiences of urban youth to indigenous populations globally. Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, Emdin demonstrates how by implementing the “Seven C’s” of reality pedagogy in their own classrooms, urban youth of color benefit from truly transformative education. For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood...and the Rest of Y'all Too has been featured in MotherJones.com, Education Week, Weekend All Things Considered with Michel Martin, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, PBS NewsHour.com, Slate, The Washington Post, Scholastic Administrator Magazine, Essence Magazine, Salon, ColorLines, Ebony.com, Huffington Post Education

For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of y'all Too

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Jeremy Scahill

The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army

On September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdad's Nisour Square, leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The shooting spree, labeled “Baghdad's Bloody Sunday,” was neither the work of Iraqi insurgents nor U.S. soldiers. The shooters were private forces working for the secretive mercenary company, Blackwater Worldwide. This is the explosive story of a company that rose a decade ago from Moyock, North Carolina, to become one of the most powerful players in the “War on Terror.” In his gripping bestseller, award-winning journalist Jeremy Scahill takes us from the bloodied streets of Iraq to hurricane-ravaged New Orleans to the chambers of power in Washington, to expose Blackwater as the frightening new face of the U.S. war machine.

Blackwater

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Xavier Garza

Maximillian's summer vacation resembles one of his beloved lucha libre movies: grudge matches, fantastic villains and the Guardian Angel.

A Pura BelprÃ©-winning bilingual cuento. Maximillian is just another 11-year-old lucha libre fan. He goes to the matches, watches the movies and collects the masks of his favorite wrestlers, especially the Guardian Angel. But when he tumbles over the railing at a lucha libre match in San Antonio, Max makes a connection to the world of Mexican wrestling that will ultimately link him--maybe by blood! --to the greatest hero of all time: The Guardian Angel. What was shaping up to be one boringsummer before 6th grade now seems like a story straight out of Max's beloved lucha libre movies!

Las vacaciones de verano de Maximillian se parece a una de sus queridas pelÃ­culas de lucha libre: partidos de rencor, villanos fantÃ¡sticos y el Ãngel GuardiÃ¡n.

Un cuento bilingÃ¼e, ganador de Pura BelprÃ©. Maximillian es solo otro fan de lucha libre de 11 aÃ±os. Ã%l va a los partidos, mira las pelÃ­culas y colecciona las mÃ¡scaras de sus luchadores favoritos, especialmente el Ãngel Guardian. Pero cuando cae por la barandilla en un combate de lucha libre en San Antonio, Max hace una conexiÃ³n con el mundo de la lucha mexicana, que finalmente lo vincularÃ¡, Â¡tal vez por sangre! --Al hÃ©roe mÃ¡s grande de todos los tiempos: El Ãngel Guardian.


A 2012 Pura Belpré Author Honor Award winner!


Xavier Garza was born in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. An enthusiastic author, artist, teacher, and storyteller, his work is a lively documentation of the dreams, superstitions, and heroes in the bigger-than-life world of south Texas.


Maximilian and the Mystery of the Guardian Angel

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Norman Maclean

Annie Proulx

Just as Norman Maclean writes at the end of "A River Runs through It" that he is "haunted by waters," so have readers been haunted by his novella. A retired English professor who began writing fiction at the age of 70, Maclean produced what is now recognized as one of the classic American stories of the twentieth century. Originally published in 1976, A River Runs through It and Other Stories now celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary, marked by this new edition that includes a foreword by Annie Proulx. Maclean grew up in the western Rocky Mountains in the first decades of the twentieth century. As a young man he worked many summers in logging camps and for the United States Forest Service. The two novellas and short story in this collection are based on his own experiences—the experiences of a young man who found that life was only a step from art in its structures and beauty. The beauty he found was in reality, and so he leaves a careful record of what it was like to work in the woods when it was still a world of horse and hand and foot, without power saws, "cats," or four-wheel drives. Populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, and set in the small towns and surrounding trout streams and mountains of western Montana, the stories concern themselves with the complexities of fly fishing, logging, fighting forest fires, playing cribbage, and being a husband, a son, and a father. By turns raunchy, poignant, caustic, and elegiac, these are superb tales which express, in Maclean's own words, "a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by." A first offering from a 70-year-old writer, the basis of a top-grossing movie, and the first original fiction published by the University of Chicago Press, A River Runs through It and Other Stories has sold more than a million copies. As Proulx writes in her foreword to this new edition, "In 1990 Norman Maclean died in body, but for hundreds of thousands of readers he will live as long as fish swim and books are made."

A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

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Lessons in Chemistry

Kathy Hoopmann

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All Dogs Have ADHD takes an inspiring and affectionate look at Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), using images and ideas from the canine world to explore a variety of traits that will be instantly recognisable to those who are familiar with ADHD.

Following the style of the award-winning All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome, charming colour photographs of dogs bring to life familiar ADHD characteristics such as being restless and excitable, getting easily distracted, and acting on impulse.

This delightful book combines humour with understanding to reflect the difficulties and joys of raising a child with ADHD and celebrates what it means to be considered `different'. This absorbing and enjoyable book takes a refreshing approach to understanding ADHD.

All Dogs Have ADHD

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John Holt

Ways to Help People Do Things Better, Second Edition

Holt's most direct and radical challenge to the educational status quo and a clarion call to parents to save their children from schools of all kinds.

Instead of Education

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Ethel Pochocki

Wildflower Tea

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Hannah Zuta

Now, My Perspective is a book of poems about the Black experience, femininity, religion, belonging, and self-realization. The book is divided into three chapters, each of which documents a different phase of understanding about what it means to be a Black woman. It begins with the confusion one feels due to societal pressures, journeys into the anger that quickly bubbles upon the realization of how society treats Black women, and finally delves into ways to process that anger, landing in a place of introspection. These poems educate readers on what it means to be a Black woman living in a society that accommodates neither being Black nor being a woman. Above all, Now, My Perspective proves once again that being Black is a label, not a monolith....

Now, My Perspective

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Little Robot 

Kalisha Buckhanon

Writing on page edge....I think was a classroom book.

A Novel

Two young, star-crossed lovers--17-year-old Antonio and 16-year-old Natasha--face tragedy when Antonio is convicted of murder. Their story, told through a decade of letters, captures their anger, hope, and frustrations in this coming-of-age story.

Upstate

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Debra White Smith

Loosely basedon the beloved Pride and Prejudice, Debra White Smitha's FirstImpressions weaves a spellA'binding, modernA'day tale on the challenges andrewards of love. Eddi Boswick has just settled in Texasto establish her law practice. Joining a local theater group, she is thrilledwhen she is given the role of Elizabethin Pride and Prejudice. William a?Davea?Davidson III amassed a fortune in the computer industry but leads a quiet lifeon his ranch. On a dare he tries out for the play and lands the role of Darcy. Sparks fly eachtime the lawyer meets the rancher. When Eddi uncoversDavea's secret will her heart soften? Will Davea's fear of a'being tameda? keep himfrom discovering love?

First Impressions

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Claudine Hellmuth

New Techniques Using Color, Personal Imagery and Creative Surfaces

Embark on an all-new Collage Art Adventure! Bring laughter and a sense of play to your collage creations with Collage Discovery Workshop: Beyond the Unexpected. Using incredibly easy-to-create textures and a kaleidoscope of colorful imagery, you'll learn to create one-of-a-kind collages with your own unique touch. Claudine Hellmuth shows you how to create amazing textures like layered tissue paper, masking tape texture, dishwasher rinse aid resist, Elmer's Glue-All crackle and more! You'll also learn how to: Add whimsical hand-drawn elements to your artwork Explore the possibilities of printmaking, including the use of a pasta machine! Combine paper and fabric in new and creative ways Incorporate personal imagery into your collage work Whatever your collage experience level, Collage Discovery Workshop: Beyond the Unexpected will unleash the artist within.

Collage Discovery Workshop Beyond the Unexpected

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Kay Gardiner

Ann Meador Shayne

Steve Gross

Sue Daley

Excellent but some shelf wear on dust jacket


The Curious Knitters' Guide: Stories, Patterns, Advice, Opinions, Questions, Answers, Jokes, and Pictures

Chock-full of amusing anecdotes and helpful tips for knitters, this book also includes 30 patterns for practical but lovely dishcloths, cushions, and rugs, as well as sexy knitted nightwear, ethereal scarves, and cute baby gifts.

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