Charles Baxter

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

California

A Comedy

From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune) comes a comic novel about a divorced Midwestern dad who takes a cutting-edge medical test and learns that he has a predisposition to murder. In this fresh take on love and trouble in America, Brock Hobson, an insurance salesman and Sunday-school teacher, finds his equilibrium disturbed by the results of a predictive blood test. Baxter, a master storyteller, brings us a gradually building rollercoaster narrative, and a protagonist who is impertinent, searching, and hilariously relatable. From his good-as-gold, gentle girlfriend to the excessively macho subcontractor guy his ex-wife left him for, not to mention his well-raised teenage kids, now exploring sex and sexuality, the secondary characters in Brock's life all contribute meaningfully to the drama, as increasing challenges to his sense of self and purpose crash over him. The final battle—no spoilers, but there is one—couldn't be more delightful, as this quick and bracing novel reminds us to choose the best people to love, accept the ones we love even if we didn’t choose them, and love them all well.

Blood Test

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A User’s Guide 

Your Body 

Rebecca Solnit

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A History of Walking

A passionate, thought provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of the memoir Recollections of My Nonexistence

Drawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores--Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers. She profiles some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction--from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton's Nadja--finding a profound relationship between walking and thinking and walking and culture. Solnit argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in our ever more car-dependent and accelerated world.

Wanderlust

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Camilla Läckberg

No. 1 international bestseller and Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg s new psychological thriller featuring Detective Patrick Hedstrom and Erica Falck irresistible for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo. YOU CANNOT CHANGE THE PAST Easter 1974. A family vanishes from their home on an idyllic island off the Swedish coast. They have left everything behind including their one-year-old daughter, Ebba. Now, years later, Ebba has returned to the island. She and her husband have suffered the loss of their only child and are looking to make a fresh start. But within days, their house is the target of an arson attack. YOU CANNOT ESCAPE THE FUTURE Detective Patrik Hedstrom takes on the investigation, aided by his wife, crime writer Erica Falck, who has always been fascinated by the mystery of Ebba s abandonment and the family s tragic history. When dried blood is found under the floorboards of the old house, it seems that the cold case involving the missing family is about to be brought back to life. And soon, Patrik and Erica are consumed by the hunt for a killer who will stop at nothing to keep the past buried "

Buried Angels

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D.I. Lottie Parker Book 14

Her Last Walk Home

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Rival Crock Pot Cooking

Charlie Mason

Arthritis Anti Inflammatory Diet & Plant Based Nutrition Bundle *** SPECIAL BONUS INSIDE THE BOOK *** Arthritis Anti Inflammatory Diet: If you or a loved one is suffering from pain caused by arthritis or inflammation, this is a great introductory book to read about these conditions. First and foremost, it's important to talk to your doctor before making any changes to your diet or exercise routine. It's possible your doctor has concerns about your workouts, or medication you are taking can conflict with changes in your diet. Here's what this book can provide you! An introduction to what arthritis and inflammation is A lesson on what these symptoms mean in the body What types of aches and pains fall under these illnesses How to recognize signs of early onset arthritis Learn what the possible causes of this disease are How research has found genetic markers linked to familiar rheumatoid arthritis How environmental factors play a huge role in whether you get arthritis Types of medication that doctors can prescribe to give you arthritis relief How physical therapy can introduce exercises to manage your pain How obesity is linked to a higher risk of arthritis, and why weight loss is so important to relieve stress on the joints How healthy eating habits can fight back against arthritis pain and chronic inflammation How some fruits and vegetables have natural antioxidants to suppress the body's inflammatory proteins Which foods to include in your diet to boost your immune system A list of foods that can offer arthritis pain relief and how to incorporate them into your diet Which vegetables to add to your shopping list that can fight back against arthritis pain A shopping guide on what to include on your list for healthy eating, and what to take off and step away from! More than a dozen easy and delicious smoothie recipes packed with anti-inflammatory agents and loaded with vitamins and minerals Plant Based Nutrition: Whether you swear by a vegan diet or you just can't live without beef, chicken, and other sources of meat in your diet, what you eat will affect your well-being! In this book, we will look at a plant-based diet and all the benefits it can provide to your life. Some of the information in this guidebook includes: Information on plant-based nutrition and the factors why this diet is the best for you How this diet can help improve a variety of your health conditions The foods you should eat and the ones you should avoid with plant-based nutrition Your ultimate shopping guide How to begin with plant-based nutrition The nutritional facts you need to see what science has always known about plant-based nutrition The healthy approaches you can follow to make this new eating style work And much more!

Arthritis Anti Inflammatory Diet and Plant Based Nutrition

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Jo Nesbo

Neil Smith

A Novel

From the internationally best-selling author, a twisted, multi-layered, mind-bending spin on the classic horror novel In the wake of his parents’ tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne, where he quickly earns a reputation as an outcast. When a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects that the angry new boy is responsible for his disappearance. And no one believes Richard when he says the telephone booth out by the edge of the woods sucked Tom into the receiver like something out of a horror movie. No one, that is, except Karen, a beguiling fellow outsider who encourages Richard to pursue clues the police refuse to investigate. He eventually traces the number that Tom prank-called from the phone booth to an abandoned house in the Black Mirror Wood. There he catches a glimpse of a terrifying face in the window. And then the voices begin to whisper in his ear: You know who I am. She’s going to burn. The one you love is going to burn. There’s not a thing you can do about it. When another classmate disappears, Richard must find a way to prove his innocence—and preserve his sanity—as he grapples with the dark magic that is possessing Ballantyne and threatening to destroy him. Then again, Richard may not be the most reliable narrator of his own story . . .

The Night House

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Down Among The Dead Men

Kate Christensen

"Kate Christensen's new novel, Welcome Home, Stranger, is a revelation, offering characters as real as your family and friends, a rich, vividly drawn setting, grab-you-by-the-throat drama and always, lurking in the shadows, a fierce authorial intelligence. What more could you ask?"--Richard Russo, author of Somebody's Fool "To the great literature of going home again we can now add Kate Christensen's superb new novel Welcome Home, Stranger, a triumph of intelligence and wit (which will surprise none of her many fans). The prodigal here is a brilliant journalist grieving the loss of a very difficult mother while attempting peace with those she left behind: a resentful sister and an ex-lover who can be neither trusted nor forgotten. A spellbinding book from one of our best chroniclers of the very American struggle to strive for excellence while still living in community with others."--Ann Packer, author of The Children's Crusade From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growing older, and the complications of family that is the story of a fifty-something woman who goes home--reluctantly--to Maine after the death of her mother. Can you ever truly go home again? An environmental journalist in Washington, DC, Rachel has shunned her New England working-class family for years. Divorced and childless in her middle age, she's a true independent spirit with the pain and experience to prove it. Coping with challenges large and small, she thinks her life is in free fall-until she's summoned home to deal with the aftermath of her mother's death. Then things really fall apart. Surrounded by a cast of sometimes comic, sometimes heartbreakingly serious characters--an arriviste sister, an alcoholic brother-in-law and, most importantly, the love of her life recently married to the sister's best friend-Rachel must come to terms with her past, the sorrow she has long buried, and the ghost of the mother who, for better and worse, made her the woman she is. Lively, witty, and painfully familiar, this sophisticated and emotionally resonant novel from the author of The Great Man holds a mirror up to modern life as it considers the way some of us must carry on now.

Welcome Home, Stranger

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Katie Spalding

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Untold Weirdness of History's Greatest Geniuses

A hilarious look at how the line between 'genius' and 'extremely lucky idiot' is finer than we'd like to admit. The more you delve into the stories behind history's greatest names, the more you realize they have something in common: a mystifying lack of common sense. Take Marie Curie, famous for both discovering radioactivity and having absolutely zero lab safety protocols. Or Lord Byron, who literally took a bear with him to university. Or James Glaisher, a hot-air balloon pioneer who nearly ended up as the world's first human satellite... From Nikola Tesla falling in love with a pigeon to non-swimmer Albert Einstein's near-fatal love of sailing holidays, Edison's Ghosts is filled with examples of the so-called brightest and best of humanity doing, to put it bluntly, some really dumb shit. These are the stories that deserve to be told but never are: the hilarious, regrettable and downright baffling lesser-known achievements of the men and women who somehow managed to bungle their way into our history books.

Edison's Ghosts

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Riptide 

Douglas Preston

Lincoln Child

A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground.
Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy?
Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land?
Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of America's heartland.
No one is safe.

Still Life with Crows

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Karin Fossum

A brand new addition to the captivating Inspector Sejer series from Norway's finest crime writer.

The Drowned Boy

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K. E. Semmel

Jane Kirby

Inspector Sejer investigates the delivery of a threatening postcard that coincides with the discovery of a child who was found covered in blood but unharmed in her stroller.

The Caller

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Kristina Ohlsson

From the bestselling author of THE DISAPPEARED and UNWANTED comes the newest thriller by the Queen of Scandi Crime A man, wearing his daughter's wedding ring, is found in front of his fireplace, a bullet hole in his chest. A funeral director searches desperately for his brother - a man who doesn't seem to be missed. A woman struggles to protect her children and her life as her husband turns ever more dangerous. Fredrika Bergman and Alex Recht believe that these three cases are totally unrelated... until they uncover a connection between these three people that changes everything. Soon Bergman and Recht are pulled into an escalating series of events where old sins return to haunt all involved. And someone is leaving them taunting messages... but who, and why? Kristina Ohlsson has already sold nearly a million copies worldwide. Now discover for yourself what makes her one of the world's favourite crime writers. Praise for KRISTINA OHLSSON, the QUEEN OF SCANDI CRIME 'Kristina Ohlsson has managed to achieve what many before her have only attempted: to take the Swedish crime novel to a new and unexpected level' Arne Dahl 'The writing is tense, dense and very atmospheric. The stories sharp and impossible to let go. Kristina Ohlsson is a true queen of Scandinavian crime.' Mons Kallentoft 'Kristina Ohlsson is a rising star of Scandinavian crime fiction' Sunday Times 'Superbly crafted, and with a set of police detectives who are all too human, it seeps into your subconscious, as only truly good thrillers can do' Daily Mail 'Expect Ohlsson to join Nesbo on most readers' can't-miss lists' Booklist (starred review)

The Flood

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No. 1 international bestseller and Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg s new psychological thriller featuring Detective Patrik Hedstrom and Erica Falck irresistible for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo. January, Fjallbacka. A semi-naked girl wanders through the woods in freezing cold weather. When she finally reaches the road, a car comes out of nowhere. It doesn t manage to stop. By the time Detective Patrik Hedstrom receives word of the accident, the girl has already been identified. Four months ago she disappeared on her way home from the local riding school, and no one has seen her since. It quickly becomes clear that she has been subjected to unimaginably brutal treatment. And it s likely she s not the only one. Meanwhile, Patrik s wife, crime writer Erica Falck, is looking into an old case a family tragedy that led to a man s death. His wife was convicted of murder, but Erica senses that something isn t right. What is the woman hiding? As Erica digs deeper, the past starts to cast a shadow over the present and Patrik is forced to see his investigation in a whole new light."

The Ice Child (Patrik Hedstrom and Erica Falck, Book 9)

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Camilla Lackberg

Crime writer Erica Falck is shocked to discover a Nazi medal among her late mother’s possessions. Haunted by a childhood of neglect, she resolves to dig deep into her family’s past and finally uncover the reasons why. Her enquiries lead her to the home of a retired history teacher. He was among her mother’s circle of friends during the Second World War but her questions are met with bizarre and evasive answers. Two days later he meets a violent death. Detective Patrik Hedström, Erica’s husband, is on paternity leave but soon becomes embroiled in the murder investigation. Who would kill so ruthlessly to bury secrets so old? reluctantly erica must read her mother’s wartime diaries. But within the pages is a painful revelation about erica’s past. Could what little knowledge she has be enough to endanger her husband and newborn baby? The dark past is coming to light, and no one will escape the truth of how they came to be...

The Hidden Child

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Chris Carlsson

"In San Francisco's Bayview-Hunter's Point, a thriving local cannabis entrepreneur befriends the inventor of the Hempattery, leading her to quit her corporate job to embark on a series of biotechnological experiments. Meanwhile local biohackers have stolen a back-burnered concept from a local biotech corporation and bioengineered a new malleable fungus that takes on properties no one expected. The Robertson family, a sprawling black San Francisco clan, finds itself at the heart of this swirling urban saga. From the 101-year-old matriarch through her youngest son Frank, a UCSF cop, to the urban farming granddaughter Janet, sons and daughters move through this strangely familiar San Francisco. After a Supreme Court-endorsed reversal of the popular vote in Arizona and Wisconsin leads to a new Republican government in 2024, protests erupt, and a National Emergency is declared. When security forces open fire at a Dolores Park protest, resistance blooms and surprising new agents of history appear, from urban peasants, activist plumbers, and mountain squatters, to underground scientists, disaffected security personnel, and rebellious tech workers"--

When Shells Crumble

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Randi Zuckerberg

Untangling Our Wired Lives

With Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives, new media pioneer Randi Zuckerberg offers an entertaining and essential guide to understanding how technology and social media influence and inform our lives online and off.



Zuckerberg has been on the frontline of the social media movement since Facebook's early days and her following six years as a marketing executive for the company. Her part memoir, part how-to manual addresses issues of privacy, online presence, networking, etiquette, and the future of social change.

Dot Complicated

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When famed archaeologist Porter Stone and his team suffer bizarre accidents after discovering what may be the burial chamber of a near-mythical Egyptian pharaoh and a mystical double crown, Professor Jeremy Logan is brought in to investigate.

The Third Gate

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"It's like nothing anyone has ever seen before. Utopia is the brand-new frontier of theme parks, a fantastic collection of Worlds each so authentic it takes the average visitor's breath away. Teeming with cutting-edge holographic and robotic technology, it has captured the nation's imagination. But it has also attracted a group of ruthless criminals. After infiltrating the park and its computer systems, their leader--calling himself John Doe--sets the parameters: If their shocking demands are met, none of the visitors to the park that day will be harmed; if not, then all hell will rain down. Dr. Andrew Warne, the brilliant engineer who designed much of the park's robotics, suddenly finds himself in a role he never imagined--trying to save the lives of thousands of innocent people, one of whom just happens to be his daughter."--Page 4 of cover.

Lethal Velocity (Previously Published As Utopia)

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John L. Esposito

Terror in the Name of Islam

Unholy War

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Jack Graham

Roma Downey

Who They Are, What They Do, and Why It Matters

Leading Baptist Pastor Teaches the Truth about Angels Myths about angels are everywhere. Do we become angels when we die? Are angels always hovering nearby, on guard to protect us from danger? Can we talk to them? Many of our ideas about angels come from the media, which is more interested in ratings and ticket sales than truth. As Christians it's important to understand what angels really are. Pastor Jack Graham walks readers through Scripture, revealing the truth about angels and their roles as worshipers of the Lord, witnesses to his glory, and warriors fighting on his behalf. Focusing on practical application, Dr. Graham separates fact from fiction, encouraging you to become a better worshiper, warrior, and witness. Includes end-of-chapter questions. A small-group curriculum DVD will also be available.

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Camilla Lackberg

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