#hardcover #nonfiction #selfhelp #rachelhollis #motivational 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Maryland

Putting Life Back Together When Your World Falls Apart

I want you to know that what's been good will always be good: the smell of coconut sunblock, a five year old showing you the spot where his front tooth used to be, a home-cooked meal, when your love kisses that exact spot on your neck, a grandmother's handwriting, a job well done, the kindness of strangers, the human spirit, an Appaloosa horse, the ritual of your faith, laughing until you pee your pants a little, holiday dessert tables, first birthday parties, a perfect cup of coffee. What's good will always be good, and one of the most awful, beautiful things about the hard seasons is that unless we experience hardship, we'll never truly appreciate the goodness. Fear. Grief. Loss. Betrayal. Rachel Hollis has felt all those things. Now, she takes you to the other side. Rachel Hollis sees you. As the millions who read her #1 New York Times bestsellers Girl, Wash Your Face and Girl, Stop Apologizing, attend her RISE conferences and follow her on social media know, she also wants to see you transform. When it comes to the "hard seasons" of life--the death of a loved one, divorce, loss of a job--transformation seems impossible when grief and uncertainty dominate your days. Especially when, as Didn't See that Coming reveals, no one asks to have their future completely rearranged for them. But, as Rachel writes, it is up to you how you come through your pain--you can come through changed for the better, having learned and grown, or stuck in place where your identity becomes rooted in what hurt you. With her signature humor, heartfelt honesty and true-life stories, in Didn't See that Coming Rachel Hollis shares how to embrace the difficult moments in life for the learning experiences they are, and that a life well-lived is one of purpose and focused on the essentials. This is a small book about big feelings, inspirational, aspirational, and an anchor that shows that darkness can co-exist with the beautiful.

Didn't See That Coming

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#hardcover #fiction #mystery #mentalhealth #death

Georgia

Paralyzed by grief, Moira feels punished when her parents send her to a therapeutic boarding school in Maine where she meets eleven other troubled girls and gradually begins to understand her parents' true intentions behind sending her there.

The Castle School (for Troubled Girls)

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A spirited homage to the departed literary greats--set in an entrancing English village--this novel tells the tale of a profound autumn term with Poe, Yeats, Whitman, Dickinson, and the Brontës.

"I am walking along a country lane with no earthly idea why . . ."

Poet Glyn Maxwell wakes up in a mysterious village one autumn day. He has no idea how he got there--is he dead? In a coma? Dreaming?--but he has a strange feeling there's a class to teach. And isn't that the poet Keats wandering down the lane? Why not ask him to give a reading, do a Q and A, hit the pub with the students afterwards?

Soon the whole of the autumn term stretches ahead, with Byron, Yeats and Emily Dickinson, the Brontës, the Brownings, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Wilfred Owen, and many more all on their way to give readings in the humble village hall.

And everything these famed personalities say--in class, on stage, at the Cross Keys pub--comes verbatim from these poets' diaries, essays, or letters. A dreamy novel of a profound autumn term with Poe, Yeats, Whitman, Dickinson, and the Brontës.

Drinks with Dead Poets

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Indiana

A Stephanie Plum Novel

When dead bodies start showing up in shallow graves near Vincent Plum Bail Bonds, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum tries to find the killer before she is the next target, while working to choose between the two men in her life.

Smokin' Seventeen

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A Novel

A breathless and highly charged political thriller: the story of a senator who is offered the vice presidential slot by both parties' presidential nominees and then gets ominous threats



It's presidential primary season in Washington, DC, and both parties are on edge. At campaign rallies for all the candidates around the country, there are disturbing incidents of violence and protest and shocking acts of civil disobedience. Rena and Brooks are happy to sit it out.

Against this backdrop, Wendy Upton, the highly respected centrist senator, must make a choice: she's been offered the VP slot by both parties' leading candidates. When she receives an anonymous, unnerving threat that could destroy her promising career, she hires Peter Rena to investigate her past and figure out which side is threatening her and what they are threatening her with.

As Rena digs through the senator's seemingly squeaky-clean past, he must walk the tightrope between two parties at war with each other and with themselves, an electorate that is as restive as it has ever been, and a political culture that is as much driven by money as it is by ideology.

Oppo

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Resisting the advances of her former best friend-turned-mercenary, Clarisse Carrington struggles to live independently after a wrenching family tragedy, only to find herself seeking the aid of rugged mercenary Stanton Rourke when she is targeted by a dangerous adversary. By the New York Times best-selling author of Dangerous.

Untamed

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New York

Team Beauty Sleep Journal

and Make it Your Reality

Dream Big

#hardcover #fiction #mystery #historicalfiction #paraicodonnel #19thcentury #london #SALE

Texas

London, 1893: high up in a house on a dark, snowy night, a lone seamstress stands by a window. So begins the swirling, serpentine world of Paraic O'Donnell's Victorian-inspired mystery, the story of a city cloaked in shadow, but burning with questions: why does the seamstress choose to jump out of that window? Why is there a cryptic message sewn into her skin? And how is she connected to a rash of missing girls, all of whom seem to have disappeared under similar circumstances?On the case is Gideon Bliss, a young Cambridge dropout who is in love with one of the missing girls, and his partner Inspector Cutter, a detective as sharp and committed to his work as he is wryly hilarious. There's also Octavia Hillingdon, a young reporter determined to tell stories that feel important despite her employer's preference that she write a women's society column. By turns clever, surprising, and impossible to put down, The House on Vesper Sands peels back the mystery layer by layer, offering in the strange undertow of late 19th century London a startling glimpse at the secrets we all hold inside us.

The House on Vesper Sands

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California

How to Have Important, Brave, Life-Changing Conversations about Race and Racism

An empowering handbook on how to have candid conversations around race and become a better advocate, written by a Black woman and a white woman who ask and answer 20 common, uncomfortable-but-critical questions about racism.



Many people struggle to have honest conversations about race, even those who consider themselves allies or identify as anti-racist. For anyone who wants to have better, more productive discussions, Courageous Discomfort is an empowering handbook that teaches you how to do just that.



In these pages, authors (and best friends), Shanterra McBride, who is Black, and Rosalind Wiseman, who is white, discuss their own friendship and tap into their decades of anti-racism work to answer the 20 uncomfortable-but-critical questions about race they get asked most often, including:
 * Should I see colour?
 * I'm a good person - how can I be racist?
 * What if I say something wrong?
 * What kind of apology makes a difference?

These 20 questions-as-chapters invite you into the conversation without judgment and inspire thoughtful reflection and discussion. There will be moments when you will laugh or cringe at the ridiculous or awkward things you read. But the truth is, there is no perfect solution or script for every maybe-racist, sort-of-racist, or blatantly racist situation. And that's OK: making mistakes is just an opportunity to do better next time. But doing this work will empower us to have the relationships we really want to have, including the relationship we want to have with ourselves.

Courageous Discomfort

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This beautifully illustrated novel is a compendium of Artemis Fowl's knowledge gleaned from The Book of the People and from his encounters with magical creatures and the LEP. Compiling notes from the sacred fairy tome and Artemis's eventual plans to take down the LEP forces that stand in the way of his ultimate goal, Artemis Fowl's Guide to the World of Fairies is a must-have for fans who are itching to dig deeper into the world of Artemis Fowl.

Artemis Fowl: Guide to the World of Fairies

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#hardcover #fiction #louiseshaffer #familyacts

Virginia

Louise Shaffer follows her beloved novels The Three Miss Margarets and The Ladies of Garrison Gardens with an unforgettable tale of poignancy, wit, and high drama. Katie Harder and Randa Jennings live on opposite coasts, have never met, and have almost nothing in common–except that they’re both named after Shakespearean characters. Everything Katie has ever done or possessed–her New York City co-op, her career as a writer for a daytime drama–was given to her by her late mother, in her day a flamboyant soap opera queen. Randa, on the other hand, has escaped the trappings of a difficult past and forged a life as a single mom, juggling her work as a Hollywood business manager with the needs of her precocious eleven-year-old daughter. Life takes an unpredictable turn for these two strangers when they jointly inherit the century-old Venable Opera House, a stately but run-down theater in small-town Georgia. Puzzled at this peculiar legacy, Katie and Randa are at first eager to unload their white elephant. But as they spend more time in the old theater, they come to realize that a rich heritage is at stake. A line of strong women–starting with Juliet Venable in the late nineteenth century–has been responsible for keeping the grand old place up and running. In the face of huge obstacles, including a dying theater culture and their own personal struggles, these singular women have gone to drastic measures to keep the opera house in the family–including burying a devastating family secret that could destroy the carefully cultivated Venable legend forever. Now, as a local contractor seeks to tear down the landmark, Katie and Randa must decide not only if they want to unravel their mysterious connection to the theater and maintain its tradition but if they have what it takes to keep the Venable family legacy alive. A sprawling page-turner about maintaining family honor and lifelong dreams, Family Acts is Louise Shaffer’s most powerful and assured novel to date. From the Hardcover edition.

Family Acts

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Pennsylvania

A True Story of Murder in the Arctic

At the End of the World is the remarkable story of a series of murders that occurred in an extremely remote corner of the Arctic in 1941. Those murders show that senseless violence in the name of religion is not only a contemporary phenomenon, and that a people as seemingly peaceful as the Inuit can become unpeaceful at the drop of a hat or, in this instance, a meteor shower.

At the same time, the book is a warning cry against the destruction of what's left of our culture's humanity, along the destruction of the natural world. Has technology deprived us of our eyes? the author asks. Has it deprived the world of birds, beasts, and flowers?

Lawrence Millman's At the End of the World is a brilliant and original book by one of the boldest writers of our era.

At the End of the World

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Colorado

The Apartment 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Florida

Tactics, Tools and Insights to Create a Life of Fulfillment, Joy and Abundance

Thirty years after Tony Robbins released Awaken the Giant Within, Mike X brings us what may be the only other book to deliver as much life-changing advice and insight as Robbins' original tome. This book will change how you think about every aspect of your life. You'll upend your priorities, rethink your daily habits and find endless new ways to enjoy every moment of every day. This is a one-of-a-kind book that's exceptionally fun to read. Buckle up and get ready for an awesome ride! "Packed with useful content from cover to cover, this is unlike any other self-help book you have read. A wealth of knowledge awaits you as Mike X delves into topics such as how to have hard conversations, how dopamine is your brain's currency for motivation, how we make decisions using emotions instead of just our brains, and the magic of charisma. This is a guide to living your life to its fullest potential. A++." --Kristi Elizabeth, Los Angeles Book Review

Your Best Life

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#hardcover #jenhatmaker #christian #lifestyle

Iowa

Inspired by and adapted from her breakout book 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess, 7 Days of Christmas takes Hatmaker's social experiments in seven key areas--food, clothes, spending, media, possessions, waste, stress--and turns them into thoughtful and practical generosity that captures the true spirit of Christmas.

7 Days of Christmas covers 7 days during the Christmas season to practice both generosity and restraint in the areas related to the book. It will contain snippets of Jen's journey throughout to offer insight, humor, ideas, facts, and encouragement for the reader to consider while embracing this change, if only for 24 hours.

We'll see the reasons why each area is important to Jen and also applicable to most American families. We'll also see how that particular area of excess impacts the family unit, the community, and the world at large--complete with ideas on how to reduce thoughtless consumption and consider other practices that lead to less stuff but more joy.

7 Days of Christmas

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#hardcover #fiction #paperback #firstedition #jesswalter #thecoldmillions 

"Orphans Gig and Rye Dolan don't have a penny to their names. The brothers work grueling, odd jobs each day just to secure a meal, and spend nights sleeping wherever they can with other day laborers. Twenty-three-year-old Gig is a passionate union man, fighting for fair pay and calling out the corrupt employers who exploit the working class. Eager to emulate his older brother, Rye follows suit, though he can't quite muster Gig's passion for the cause. But when Rye's turn on the soap box catches the eye of well-known activist and suffragette Elizabeth Gurley, he is swept into the world of labor activism-and dirty business. With his brother's life on the line, Rye must evade the barbaric police force, maneuver his way out of the clutches of a wealthy businessman-and figure out for himself what he truly stands for. The Cold Millions is a stunning portrait of class division and familial bonds. In this masterful historical take on the enduring saga of America's economic divide, Jess Walter delivers nothing less than another "literary miracle" (NPR)"--

The Cold Millions

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#mother #daughter #lifelessons #goodlife #family #relationships #motherswords #hardcover #nonfiction

Advice and Lessons for a Good Life

"From Mother to Daughter "is a gift of advice to be given and received-a treasury of simple, powerful ideas that have transmitted the experience of generations.
It all began when Sherry Conway Appel asked hundreds of women to recall the most memorable and valuable words their mothers had told them. There came an outpouring of things practical and indispensable, some familiar and many surprising.
This beautiful book celebrates the special relationship between mothers and daughters, and captures the wisdom and common sense that comes from many lifetimes of experience. It is a gift that no one can give without remembering (and perhaps recording in it) something her own mother said.


From Mother to Daughter

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#money #finances #FiscalHangover #globaleconomy #business #riches #investing #moneymaps #hardcover #inflation #savings #stocks #moneymarkets 

How to Profit from the New Global Economy

The rules of making money have changed-forever With the collapse of investment banks, trillion-dollar-plus government bailouts, and the Dow plunging like a rock, it's never been more important to understand-and actually profit from-the "new rules." Fact is, Fiscal Hangover, will give you an investing blueprint that will allow you to profit from the changing global economy.

For the first time in 200 years, American consumers are stepping down from their position as the driving force behind the world's economy. In Fiscal Hangover, Keith Fitz-Gerald analyzes the declining power of the American consumer and introduces you to the resulting investment opportunities. Without question, the American consumer and the United States government have provided the rest of the world with liquidity in the form of cheap capital and abundant debt. But in light of recent economic events, the rules of the game have changed and that means you must change with them-if you intend on securing your financial future.

Unlike most of today's finance books that simply examine the end of the American Empire, Fiscal Hangover shows you how to prepare for the fall, effectively allocate your investments, and thrive in the new global economy. This book offers specific analysis and concrete actionable steps for individual investors interested in grabbing their fair share of what will be the greatest wealth creation in the history of mankind.

 * Examines our current financial situation and offers practical investment advice to overcome the challenges you'll face
 * Analyzes the declining power of the American consumer and introduces you to the resulting investment opportunities
 * Details new investing benchmarks and discusses why the old ones no longer work
 * Explores big picture economic issues that will affect your individual investment endeavors

The coming years may hold the greatest investment opportunities of our times, but in order to take advantage of this you'll need the insights that can only be found in Fiscal Hangover.

Fiscal Hangover

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#ReachForTheSkai #SkaiJackson #hardcover 
#selfhelp #inspiration #bodymindspirit #teen 

How to Inspire, Empower, and Clapback

Actress, activist, and now Danicing with the Stars competitor Skai Jackson shares her lessons on life and her rise to stardom in this vibrant memoir about self-acceptance, girl empowerment, and the classy clapback.

Actress and activist Skai Jackson is a star! Her rise to fame started on the popular Disney Channel shows Bunk'd and Jessie. Her cool sense of style led her to create her own fashion line. And her success has made her a major influencer, with millions of followers on Instagram, who isn't afraid to stand up for what she believes in.

But being a teen celebrity isn't always glamorous. For the first time, Skai discusses the negative experiences that sometimes come with living in the spotlight--the insecurities about her appearance, the challenges of separating her real personality from her TV roles, and the bullying she's faced both personally and professionally. She knows firsthand the struggles tweens and teens face today, and she has found her calling as an antibullying activist, known as the queen of the classy clapback.

Skai is a positive force and a role model for inspiring change and embracing differences in others. Her story will encourage girls and boys alike to believe in themselves and to have the courage to reach for the sky and follow their dreams.

Reach for the Skai

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#hardcover #feminism #ambertamblyn #currentevents #nonfiction #comingofage #memoir #eraofignition 

Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution

A passionate and deeply personal exploration of feminism during divisive times from one of the founders of Time's Up: actor, filmmaker, and activist Amber Tamblyn.

"A work of personal upheaval and political reckoning."--Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author of Good and Mad
 
Amber Tamblyn has emerged as an outspoken advocate for women's rights. But she wasn't always so bold and self-possessed. In her late twenties, after a particularly low period fueled by rejection and disillusionment, she grabbed hold of her own destiny and entered into what she calls an Era of Ignition--a time of self-reflection that follows in the wake of personal upheaval and leads us to challenge the status quo. In the process of undergoing this metamorphosis, she realized that our country is going through an Era of Ignition of its own, and she set about agitating for change by initiating a dialogue about gender inequality.
 
In this deeply personal exploration of modern feminism, she addresses misogyny and discrimination, reproductive rights and sexual assault, white feminism and pay parity--all through the lens of her own experiences as well as those of her Sisters in Solidarity. At once an intimate meditation and a public reckoning, Era of Ignition is a galvanizing feminist manifesto that is required reading for anyone who wants to help change the world for the better.

Era of Ignition

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Patch and poster included!
#hardcover #hardcover #baseball #mlb #sports #faithinsports 

Keeping Faith in Every Inning of Life

Passion for the Game hits a grand slam home run with inspirational text by author Steve Riach and stunning action photography by Tom Henry. The simple message of facing life with faith, courage, and determination is a winner for baseball fans of all ages.This stunning full-color gift includes a 49" fold-out action photo, a Heart of a Champion embroidered patch, and a full-color wall poster.The classic photos and words of encouragement from America's favorite baseball heroes--including Sammy Sosa, Alex Rodriguez, John Smoltz, Yogi Berra and Casey Stengel, among others--help you keep your faith in every inning of life."Passion for the Game includes quotes from players saying what the love of Jesus means to them and a heartwarming section on how the legendary Mickey Mantle accepted Christ as his Savior late in his life.Foreword written by noted baseball analyst Harold Reynolds.

Passion for the Game

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Michigan

How might immersion in a sea of dreams impact a waking nightmare of traumatic loss?Presden is a lone twin whose fearless sister, Delphine, perished in a horrific accident on the Louisiana bayou when they were eight. The tragic loss destroyed his family, forcing him to grieve in isolation.Now grown and working as a hydrological engineer, Presden meets Merle, a Dutch woman with a deep affinity for the water-and for family. The two marry and repair to her homeland, where they find a house in a small fishing village alongside a dike that Presden has been hired to fortify. And there, Merle learns she is pregnant.On discovering he's to be a father, Presden is hurled into conflict with Merle, and into a series of dream encounters with Delphine that dare him to confront the guilt and shame of his loss, and to prepare for the unimaginable . . .

Dreams of Delphine

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#hardcover #fiction #sandrabrown #blindtiger #historicalfiction #hardback 

A new page-turning historical thriller set in Prohibition-era Texas, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown​.

Rachel Hollis

Didn't See That Coming

Alyssa Sheinmel

The Castle School (for Troubled Girls)

Glyn Maxwell

Drinks with Dead Poets

Janet Evanovich

Smokin' Seventeen

Tom Rosenstiel

Oppo

Diana Palmer

Untamed

Well Beauty Lab

Team Beauty Sleep Journal

Jessica Williamson

Dream Big

Paraic O'Donnell

The House on Vesper Sands

Shanterra McBride; Rosalind Wiseman

Courageous Discomfort

Andrew Donkin; Gonzalo Kenny (Illustrator)

Artemis Fowl: Guide to the World of Fairies

Louise Shaffer

Family Acts

Lawrence Millman

At the End of the World

Greg Baxter

The Apartment

Mike X

Your Best Life

Jen Hatmaker

7 Days of Christmas

Jess Walter

The Cold Millions

Sherry Conway Appel

From Mother to Daughter

Keith Fitz-Gerald

Fiscal Hangover

Skai Jackson

Reach for the Skai

Amber Tamblyn

Era of Ignition

Steve Riach

Passion for the Game

Rich Shapero

Dreams of Delphine

Sandra Brown

Blind Tiger