Malina Malkani

Explore baby-led weaning with:

Family meals
Invite your little one to the table to share what everyone else is eating as you successfully introduce them to solid foods.

Guidance for safe weaning
Learn how to identify and avoid any allergies or food sensitivities your baby might have, which ingredients to avoid altogether, and how to prep food safely.

26 Food profiles
Find complete overviews of the top 26 natural foods for baby-led weaning, with photos, nutrition facts, and easy serving size guidance.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Texas

How to Integrate Foods, Master Portion Sizes, and Identify Allergies

Start baby on safe, healthy whole foods with this essential guide Baby is cordially invited to dinner (and breakfast and lunch)! With this guide to baby led weaning (BLW), you can start your little one on solid foods safely and healthily. Simple & Safe Baby-Led Weaning empowers you to help your baby feed themselves, developing motor skills and an adventurous palate--while meal preparation becomes easier and cheaper for you! Learn when to begin baby led weaning, and find out what to expect along the way. Pick up practical advice for creating balanced meals and eating them together. A handy to-scale diagram takes the guesswork out of safe serving sizes. Simple & Safe Baby-Led Weaning includes: 26 favorite foods--Get to know 26 of the best natural foods for baby led weaning with nutrition facts, feeding guidelines, and full-color photos. Safety first--Breathe easy with safety guidelines, including info on prohibited foods and smart kitchen habits. Allergy aware--Find out how to navigate, or even prevent, allergies and sensitivities as baby tries foods for the first time. With Simple & Safe Baby-Led Weaning, baby can savor whole foods at the dinner table--with the whole family.

Simple and Safe Baby-Led Weaning

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Stephanie Middleberg

Feed your baby a healthy, homemade diet with 200+ recipes for purees, solid foods, and whole meals.

Keeping track of proper nutrition at each stage of your baby's development―let alone preparing wholesome foods to match―is overwhelming for any parent. The Big Book of Organic Baby Food is here to take the guesswork out of feeding, with a huge selection of natural, organic, and irresistible baby food recipes to nourish your baby from infancy through the toddler years and beyond.

Get more than other baby food books with:

Guidance for every age and stage―Each section includes an overview of the developmental changes to expect at that age, and convenient tips to help you make the best nutritional choices for your child. 

A simple transition to solid food―Begin with more than 150 recipes for purees, smoothies, and finger foods that will help your little one make the transition to eating solid foods. 

Beyond baby food―When your child is ready, you'll find 70+ basic-but-delicious recipes that the whole family can eat! 

From single-ingredient purees to full meals, this baby food cookbook is your one-stop stop for complete childhood nutrition

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Baby Purées, Finger Foods, and Toddler Meals for Every Stage

"As a mom and RD, I've always taken the role of family chef very seriously. I wish this book was around when my kids were first sitting down to the table, ready to eat their first bites of real food."--Joy Bauer, MS, RD, health and nutrition expert for NBC's TODAY show and best-selling author of From Junk Food to Joy Food Cooking nutritious meals for your growing family while catering to everyone's favorite foods and appetites can be exhausting. By serving up recipes that satisfy the tastes of both kids and adults, this baby food cookbook promises parents that they'll only have to make one meal for everyone to share. With wholesome recipes that everyone can enjoy, The Big Book of Organic Baby Food is a timeless resource for preparing delicious meals in the years to come. From their first puree to their first burrito, this baby food cookbook is ideal for babies at every age and stage. More than just a baby food cookbook, The Big Book of Organic Baby Food contains: Ages & Stages: chapter divisions by age with recipes, developmental information, and FAQs for keeping up with your little one every step of the way Purees, Smoothies & Finger Foods: more than 115 single-ingredient and combination purees as well as over 40 recipes, introducing new flavors and textures to encourage self-feeding Family Meals: 70+ recipes that will please all palates makes this more than just a baby food cookbook, offering toddler-friendly fare to meals for the whole family "This is a must have for every mother who wants to raise a healthy child"--Amy C. Linde, mother and reader of The Big Book of Organic Baby Food The Big Book of Organic Baby Food is the only baby food cookbook to feed the growing needs and taste buds of your family.

The Big Book of Organic Baby Food

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What would happen if arriving passengers at an airport took the wrong shuttle? What if this mistake thrust ordinary people into a high-stakes, hazardous adventure meant for federal agents? And how would they act if they didn’t realize the situation were perilous?

Ten people mistakenly enter The River of No Return wilderness area, believing they are there for other purposes. The results are suspenseful, entertaining and often funny. The extreme challenges reveal delightful, diverse characters, who are forced to grapple with unfamiliar terrain and hate-filled adversaries.

Far from Reality is a fast-paced adventure, with elements of suspense, humor, and light-hearted action.

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Gold is wealth. Wealth is power. Power is a curse. This captivating fantasy adventure—the untold story of the daughter King Midas turned to gold—will dazzle you with the kind of action, adventure, twists, turns, and a bit of romance to make any fan of magic and mythology greedy for more.

After King Midas’s gift—or curse—almost killed his daughter, he relinquished The Touch forever. Ten years later, Princess Kora still bears the consequences of her father’s wish: her skin shines golden, rumors follow her everywhere she goes, and she harbors secret powers that are getting harder to hide.

Kora spends her days concealed behind gloves and veils. It isn’t until a charming duke arrives that Kora believes she could indeed be loved. But their courtship is disrupted when a thief steals treasures her father needs to survive. Thanks to Kora’s unique ability to sense gold, she sails off on her quest to find the missing items.

Magic, mythology, fantasy, and pirate adventures charge through every page as Kora learns that not everything is what it seems—not her companions, not the thieves, and not even Kora herself.

A Touch of Gold:

Is told from the perspective of Kora, King Midas’s daughter and a strong female protagonist
Is a clean fantasy adventure, perfect for fans of the #1 New York Times bestselling books, The Wrath & the Dawn and Cinder
Is an enchanting and captivating fantasy adventure/fairy tale retelling
Features a beautifully decorated cover
Will have strong appeal to readers ages 13 & up

A Touch of Gold (signed ARC)

David Grann

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire.

"A tour de force of narrative nonfiction." --The Wall Street Journal

On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as "the prize of all the oceans," it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing nearly 3,000 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes.

But then ... six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes - they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death--for whomever the court found guilty could hang.

The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann's recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O'Brian, his portrayal of the castaways' desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance, and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller. As always with Grann's work, the incredible twists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound.

The Wager

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Patti Callahan

From the bestselling author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis comes another beautiful story inspired by C. S. Lewis's ability to change the world and captivate hearts---including those of a terminally ill boy and his logic-driven sister.

Once upon a Wardrobe

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Book overview
Step into the deprived and wandering mind of T.C. Whetstone’s debut novelette—FEED!. You’ll think twice before returning your cart at the store, or falling in love with a woman who seems to offer it all.


A nameless man prowls the parking lot outside FEED!. For six months, he’s scoped a new target—Amini Cameron. Desperately in love, he decides today is the day. He needs what she has. It's time to take it. But when his plan derails and he finds himself trapped in the trunk of her car, it soon becomes clear—Amini might be more like him than he thought.

FEED!

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Tia Williams

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

The Ultimate Beauty Guide for Skin of Color

Foreword by Salma Hayek. From the beloved fashion icon and cosmetics entrepreneur comes the first book to embrace global beauty and women of all ethnicities. The Beauty of Color delivers a new approach to makeup and revolutionises the way women of colour can think about the way they look and feel. The book teaches skin care regimes and palettes specifically targeted to match readers' exact skin tones. Includes stunning full-colour photographs on every page and features, among others, Salma Hayek, Venus Williams and Tyra Banks.

The Beauty of Color

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W. Mark

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Images composed of apparently random patterns of marble swirls and colorful brushstrokes are transformed as the viewer stares at them, becoming detailed pictures with remarkable depth--illusions so convincing it appears that the viewer can reach into the pictures.

Ultra 3-D Book

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Seymour Simon

Our Solar System was born almost 5 billion years ago at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy. In over fifty dramatic, full-color photographs and an easy-to-read text, award-winning author Seymour Simon takes you on a fascinating tour of the nine planets, dozens of moons, and thousands of asteroids, meteoroids, and comets that travel around our sun.

First, Simon explores the star at the center of our Solar System -- from the constant nuclear explosions at its core to the giant storms on its surface as geysers of flaming gas over a hundred thousand miles long rise and fall in just a few hours.

You will also learn about the four rocky inner planets, from airless Mercury to fiery Venus, her sister planet, Earth, and mysterious Mars. Then join the thrilling Voyager missions to explore the four gaseous outer planets: gigantic Jupiter, ringed Saturn, tilted Uranus -- the planet "lying on its side" -- and windy Neptune. You will finish your journey at distant Pluto, then visit the asteroid belt and examine comets, the "dirty snowballs" in space.

A companion volume to Simon's landmark series of individual books about each of the planets, the sun, stars, and other space sights, Our Solar System will introduce you to some of the most amazing mysteries in the universe.

Our Solar System

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Clement C. Moore

As St. Nick and eight tiny reindeer descend through a brilliant night sky, the famous Christmas poem begins. The father narrates the words just as Clement Moore wrote them, and artist Jan Brett captures the spirit of the story in glorious illustrations. Visually she extends it for children who will delight in watching two mischievous stowaways from the North Pole enthusiastically exploring the sacks of gifts on the roof. St. Nick, inside the house, is unaware, until the toys spill down onto the lawn -- then he turns with a jerk, and sees them. Antique toys and exquisite ornaments frame the borders, in which the father, St.Nick, or the family cat and dog can be found watching the action. A unique and beautiful edition, which all the family will cherish for years to come.

The Night Before Christmas

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Christmas is a child’s favorite time of year and here is a cornucopia of beloved stories, poems, and carols, especially for the festive season. Christmas trees, turkey dinners, holiday sleigh rides, presents galore, and visits from Santa highlight classic works by Charles Dickens, Hans, Christian Anderson, Frank Baum, Kenneth Grahame, Mary Mapes Dodge, and other popular authors. Complete with favorite Christmas songs for all the family to share, this timeless collection is certain to be enjoyed and treasured year after year.

The Golden

 Christmas treasury, 25 stories, poems, and carols

Barbara Cooney

Th with classic text, written by Barbara Cooney and charming illustrations painted by Loretta Krupinski. This book will be treasured for many Christmases to come.

The Story of Christmas

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A golden, super shaped book, Frosty the Snowman, and Rudolph, the red nose reindeer. Both are in very good condition. All pages accounted for no doodling. Looks like someone’s name was on the front pages and was covered with Christmas sticker, and there is also a little something on the back page of Frosty the Snowman, which is included in the photos.

A golden super shaped book

Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph bundle

A delightful collection of Christmas themed poems with beautiful illustrations by Danna Clark

Christmas Love

Favorite stories, poems, and recipes

The Joy of Christmas 

The actual book is in great condition. The cover has a few small tears in it that are pictured.

Here is a captivating and winsome story for youngsters about the arrival of a precious little bundle, baby brother, Claude, in the household of young sister, Frankie. While her friend Millie thinks of Frankie’s little brother, as an added source of work, Frankie Manly loves her tiny, baby brother, acting towards him as a devoted sister, and almost like a mother.

From the naming of her brother, to the taking care of his tiny needs, to telling him stories, helping weigh him for the first time, feeding him, playing with him, and just simply loving him Frankie finds her life just one long, delightful game.

And baby Claude, responding eagerly to the affection and care of his little sister, is shown as quickly developing through his games, funny experiments with food, clothes, pins, and whatever else has little hands can get a hold of, until at the end of the book, he is "grown up" and quite "mature" lad of one, now capable of walking and enjoying his first birthday cake.

Here is a book that will appeal to children, because it reflects amusingly, and yet truthfully, all that they experience in the heart of a growing family.￼


A story for young people 

Frankie and Her Little Brother 

Wayne Erbsen

5 stars on Amazon 

An authentic collection packed with the ballads and legends of the lawless men and women of the Wild West and the South! Includes: The Hanging Judge Parker, Jessee James, Billy the Kid, Belle Starr, Judge Ray Bean, Cole Younger, Sam Bass and many more! Learn Frontier Etiquette, Outlaw Nicknames, a Cure for Snoring, Outlaw Insults, Frontier Wisdom, and much more!

This Collector's Edition is packed with the ballads and legends of the lawless men and women of the Wild West and even the South! Includes: The Hanging Judge Parker, Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Belle Starr, Judge Roy Bean, Cole Younger, Sam Bass and many more! Learn Frontier Etiquette, Outlaw Nicknames, a Cure for Snoring, Outright Insults, Frontier Wisdom, and much more! 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 64 pages.

Outlaw Ballads, Legends and Lore

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Tracy Simmons

4.3 stars  on Goodreads

Winner of the 2013 J. Donald Coffin Memorial Book Award, presented by the Kansas Authors Club.

When Jeni returns to her childhood home in western Kansas, she never imagines that she'll be hunting a white tiger escaped from the circus or competing with an ape for the affections of the boy she once loved. While she waits for the man she's left behind to notice she's not coming back, she reconnects with her family and works to pick up the pieces of her life.

Tracy Million Simmons takes the reader on a fun romp across the High Plains of southwest Kansas in a hunt for an escaped white tiger. With an engaging story of loss, family expectations, and finding one's way, Simmons shows us that home can be the greatest healer of all.
~ Cheryl Unruh, author & columnist, Flyover People: Life on the Ground in a Rectangular State

The right amount of magic! Tiger Hunting is a winner from the start. Most of us have lost our direction at one time or another. Follow Jeni as her search leads through the most unexpected events around Tracy Million Simmons's own stomping grounds of Dodge City, Kansas. 

This book comes with a wonderful insight (for some of us) into the mysterious way a woman's mind works. I welcome this white tiger to Kansas.
~ Max Yoho, author, Me and Aunt Izzy and The Moon Butter Route

When Jeni returns to her childhood home in western Kansas, she never imagines that she'll be hunting a white tiger escaped from the circus or competing with an ape for the affections of the boy she once loved. While she waits for the man she's left behind to notice she's not coming back, she reconnects with her family and works to pick up the pieces of her life. Tracy Million Simmons takes the reader on a fun romp across the High Plains of southwest Kansas in a hunt for an escaped white tiger. With an engaging story of loss, family expectations, and finding one's way, Simmons shows us that home can be the greatest healer of all. ~ Cheryl Unruh, author & columnist, Flyover People: Life on the Ground in a Rectangular State The right amount of magic! Tiger Hunting is a winner from the start. Most of us have lost our direction at one time or another. Follow Jeni as her search leads through the most unexpected events around Tracy Million Simmons' own stomping grounds of Dodge City, Kansas. This book comes with a wonderful insight (for some of us) into the mysterious way a woman's mind works.) I welcome this white tiger to Kansas. ~ Max Yoho, author, Me and Aunt Izzy and The Moon Butter Route Tracy Million Simmons writes with heartfelt warmth and humor when she develops her characters and their relationships in this entertaining and delightful story. ~ Gloria Zachgo, author, The Rocking Horse

Tiger Hunting

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The Illuminea Files tin box in excellent condition.

The Illuminea Files trinket box

Dawn of the new world #56

Metal pin depicting Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with rubber backs.  Got this in a nocturnal readers box a while back.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Owlcrate special edition white cover signed copy with bookmark.

The Bone Houses

Nikola Tesla

Thomas Commerford Martin

Ken Mondschein

Who was Nikola Tesla? Find out in this comprehensive volume that includes Tesla’s autobiography and scientific writings, as well as other works that examine his life and career in detail. Nikola Tesla came from a humble upbringing in what is now Croatia and reached the heights of science and technology in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla and Other Works gives readers a compelling insight into the man whose ideas revolutionized the fields of electrical and mechanical engineering, and who continues to be a source of inspiration for modern inventors. This volume includes Tesla’s autobiography My Inventions (1919), articles and diagrams that he published in scientific magazines—including “The Problem of Increasing Human Energy,” in which he discusses the potential of solar power—and Thomas Commerford Martin’s The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla. A scholarly introduction examines Tesla’s life and career, and the impact that he has had on generations of inventors up to the present day.

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