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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

A Kinsey Millhone Novel

Brace yourself for an "Electrifying and thoroughly satisfying" read (Publishers Weekly) from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton "M" is for money. Lots of it. "M" is for Malek Construction, the $40 million company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California construction, one of the few still in family hands. "M" is for the Malek family: four sons now nearing middle age who stand to inherit a fortune--four men with very different outlooks, temperaments, and needs, linked only by blood and money. Eighteen years ago, one of them--angry, troubled, and in trouble--went missing. "M" is for Millhone, hired to trace that missing black sheep brother. "M" is for memories, none of them happy. The bitter memories of an embattled family. This prodigal son will find no welcome at his family's table. "M" is for malice. And in brutal consequence, "M" is for murder, the all-too-common outcome of familial hatreds. "M" is for malice . . . and malice kills. "A" Is for Alibi "B" Is for Burglar "C" Is for Corpse "D" Is for Deadbeat "E" Is for Evidence "F" Is for Fugitive "G" Is for Gumshoe "H" Is for Homicide "I" Is for Innocent "J" Is for Judgment "K" Is for Killer "L" is for Lawless "M" Is for Malice "N" Is for Noose "O" Is for Outlaw "P" Is for Peril "Q" Is for Quarry "R" Is for Ricochet "S" Is for Silence "T" Is for Trespass "U" Is for Undertow "V" Is for Vengeance "W" Is for Wasted "X"

M Is for Malice

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

How This Moment Can Change the Rest of Your Life

Alleviate stress, ease pain, cultivate emotional freedom, create a healthier brain, and find enlightenment with cutting-edge mindfulness techniques from The Now Effect.

You can calm your anxious mind, have greater focus at work and home, feel more empathy toward yourself and others, approach difficulties with more grace and less stress, and be aware of what is most important to you. The secret is in the spaces.

A leader in mindfulness psychology, Dr. Elisha Goldstein demonstrates how to use the space between stimulus and response to break free from habitual beliefs and thoughts that don't serve you. Offering practical techniques to make deep, permanent life changes, Dr. Goldstein's techniques will allow you to connect to the present moment to make deep, permanent life changes and to connect with the good in life and with what really matters. In essence, this book teaches the foundation for how the now--this very moment--can change the rest of your life.

To enhance and ease the reader experience, the text contains Microsoft tags of Dr. Goldstein demonstrating his exercises, and the ebook includes embedded videos.

The Now Effect

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Lily is Furious. She can't believe she has to move again after her mom's break-up with the latest boyfriend. Now they're broke and they'll have to spend the winter in Uncle Wes's creepy summerhouse in Cape May, New Jersey. And the place is crawling with ghosts. From the spiteful teenager who mistakes Lily for her high school nemesis to the restless spirit of her eccentric Uncle Max, Lily is haunted by a host of unhappy phantoms. But why are they here? And what do they want? With the help of some mysterious clues, Lily and her new friend, local boy Vaz, uncover a sinister plot. If they don't foil the villainous plan in time, they may end up doing some eternal haunting of their own.

Lily's Ghosts

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An old woman gobbles up all the food in an enormous Thanksgiving dinner, to the amazement of those around her

I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie

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Damage meets Into Thin Air in this spellbinding novel of a forbidden love turned into a dangerous obsession that drives a woman to impulsively abandon her old life and marry a charismatic stranger.

Killing Me Softly

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#hardcover #women #historical #exlibrary #biography

Brief biographies emphasizing the courage of twelve women both famous and little-known in United States history.

Women of Courage

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#hardcover #exlibrary #historicalromance 

Indiana

An Avalon Historical Romance 

Twelfth-century England is an untamed land of medieval strongholds, forests, and feudalism. In a country where a battle over the throne leaves the nobles of the land free to fight amongst themselves for power, Rosamund Galleia, daughter of a lesser nobleman, is sent to become a lady-in-waiting at Duloe Castle. When battle with an unruly neighbor seems inevitable, the lord of the manor calls upon his most trusted man-at-arms to help defend his province. That man is Alexander Ringewar, a loyal knight and reticent heir to an earldom.

Rosamund feels a powerful attraction to Alexander but struggles against her feelings. In a world of arranged marriages and political unions, a girl of minor nobility should not dream of a future with such a high-ranking noble, especially one who is uncompromisingly wedded to his chivalric duty.

Knight's Ardor

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#hardcover #nonfiction #catholic #history #hitler #nazis #exlibrary

The Secret History of Pius XII

Draws on secret archives to present a record of the career of Pope Pius XII, showing his collaboration with the Nazis and his anti-Semitism, and discusses his continuing influence

Hitler's Pope

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The Smart Girl's Guide to Sports

Inspired by the author's memories of her great-grandmother, the story of a journey to the early American west is seen through the journal entries of eighteen-year-old Callie Wade, as she wonders about frontier life and falls in love.

The Journal of Callie Wade

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#hardcover #marieosmond #exlibrary #postpartumdepression

My Journey Out of Postpartum Depression

More than one out of 10 new mothers experience post-partum depression (PPD), yet few women seek help. After Marie Osmond, beloved singer and TV talk show host, gave birth to her seventh child (four of her children are adopted), she became increasingly depressed. One night, she handed over her bank card to her babysitter, got in her car, and drove north-with no intention of returning until she had emerged from her crisis. After she went public with her own experiences with PPD on Oprah and Larry King Live, the response was overwhelming. Now collaborating with a doctor who helped her through her ordeal, Marie Osmond will share the fear and depression she overcame, and reveal how she put it all behind her and is moving on with her life.

Behind the Smile

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#hardcover #chine #oath #friends #exlibrary #loyalty

It is the summer of 1932, the year the Japanese conquered Manchuria, China's northeast region. Three children meet and become best friends for the summer, and blood brothers for a lifetime. They are: Steel Hope, the second son of the House of Li, a once-great clan which survives now on handouts from his grandfather, a merchant who trafficks whith the Japanese; Steel Hope's bookmate, Mountain Pine, Steel Hope's servant and conscience; and the irrepressible Firecrackers, daughter of the Li's gravekeeper, who masquerades as a boy to take the place of a brother killed years earlier by the Japanese. At the end of the summer a tragic event -- a good deed gone awry -- splits them apart until they are grown.
During the subsequent years of war and cultural upheaval, the destinies of the three friends are realized -- their loyalty to each other tested by the demands of politics and patriotism, and by the question of where honor and obligation lie when confronted by love.

The Middle Heart

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#suspense #thriller #sequel #familysaga #mysweetaudrina #vwandrews #exlibrary. Ex-library book.

Maryland

The long-awaited sequel to My Sweet Audrina, one of V.C. Andrews's strangest, most beloved books--and now a Lifetime movie! Whitefern swallowed Audrina's childhood--and now the sprawling Victorian mansion threatens her adult life too...

Audrina remembers a better time, when her husband, Arden, was a young man with a heart filled with devotion for her. He didn't used to be this ambitious, expansive...this cruel. But then, the death of Aurdina's father changed a great many things.

When the reading of her father's will reveals that Audrina herself will control fifty-one percent of the family brokerage--the halls of Whitefern again don't feel safe. Arden's protestations become frantic, nearly violent. And while Audrina didn't anticipate running the family business, she's curious to do so. And she can't help but wonder what had made her father change his will at the last minute? What did he know about Arden that she didn't?

Trapped in the middle of it all: her fragile, simple sister--the beautiful, trusting Sylvia. Audrina promised her father she'd watch over the young woman. But after years of relative quiet, the dark days of Whitefern may have returned...

Whitefern

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Ex library book with markings; in excellent condition. 

Louisiana

Polly and the Prince

Ex library book with markings in excellent condition.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race

Presents a humorous summation of the history of humanity and our achievements in society, government, religion, science, and culture.

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth (the Book)

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Ex library book with no markings on edges, in excellent condition.

Prescient and chilling, DeMille's #1 New York Times bestselling novel takes us into the heart of a new Cold War with a clock-ticking plot that has Manhattan in its crosshairs. After a showdown with the notorious Yemeni terrorist known as The Panther, John Corey has left the Anti-Terrorist Task Force and returned home to New York City, taking a job with the Diplomatic Surveillance Group. Although Corey's new assignment with the DSG-surveilling Russian diplomats working at the U.N. Mission-is thought to be "a quiet end," he is more than happy to be out from under the thumb of the FBI and free from the bureaucracy of office life. But Corey realizes something the U.S. government doesn't: The all-too-real threat of a newly resurgent Russia. When Vasily Petrov, a colonel in the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service posing as a diplomat with the Russian U.N. Mission, mysteriously disappears from a Russian oligarch's party in Southampton, it's up to Corey to track him down. What are the Russians up to and why? Is there a possible nuclear threat, a so-called radiant angel? Will Corey find Petrov and put a stop to whatever he has planned before it's too late? Or will Corey finally be outrun and outsmarted, with America facing the prospect of a crippling attack unlike anything it's ever seen before? Please note: Radiant Angel is published in the UK under the title A Quiet End.

Radiant Angel

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#suspensethrillers #mystery #thriller #thewomaninthewindow #suspense #horrorfiction #ajfinn #bestseller #nytbestseller #exlibrary. Ex-library book in overall good condition 

A Novel

The Woman in the Window

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#jamespatterson #thriller #killerinstinct #sherlockholmes #psychologicalthriller #psychological #bestselling-author #exlibrary #suspense #sociopath. Ex-library book in very good condition 

Dr. Dylan Reinhart and Detective Elizabeth Needham--now known to audiences from the top-rated CBS series--reunite to stop the most sinister plot against New York City since 9/11. The murder of an Ivy League professor pulls Dr. Dylan Reinhart out of his ivory tower and onto the streets of New York, where he reunites with his old partner, Detective Elizabeth Needham. As the worst act of terror since 9/11 strikes the city, a name on the casualty list rocks Dylan's world. Is his secret past about to be brought to light? As the terrorist attack unfolds, Elizabeth Needham does something courageous that thrusts her into the media spotlight. She's a reluctant hero. And thanks to the attention, she also becomes a prime target for the ruthless murderer behind the attack. Dylan literally wrote the book on the psychology of murder, and he and Elizabeth have solved cases that have baffled conventional detectives. But the sociopath they're facing this time is the opposite of a textbook case. There's no time to study for the test he's about to give them. And if they fail, they die.

Killer Instinct

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#hardcover #leaper #misadventures #superhero #geoffreywood #largeprint #fiction #exlibrary Ex library book with markings. In great condition though. 

The Misadventures of a Not-Necessarily-Super Hero

Leaper

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#hardcover #exlibrary #fiction #classic #children #kids #juvenilefiction #livingbook #childrens #vintage 

Oregon

The Magic Moth 

ex-library book in excellent condition with the exception of the sticker on the front cover and spine, as well as a library stamp on the first page.

New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings readers a captivating tale of justice, love, brutality, and mysticism set in the turbulent 1960s.

The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields, mist-filled canyons, frolicking animals. Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Broussard has observed it from the open door of a boxcar, riding the rails for both inspiration and odd jobs.

Jumping off in Denver, he finds work on a farm and meets Joanne McDuffy, an articulate and fierce college student and gifted painter. Their soul connection is immediate, but their romance is complicated by Joanne's involvement with a shady professor who is mixed up with a drug-addled cult. When a sinister businessman and his son who wield their influence through vicious cruelty set their sights on Aaron, drawing him into an investigation of grotesque murders, it is clear that this idyllic landscape harbors tremendous power--and evil. Followed by a mysterious shrouded figure who might not be human, Aaron will have to face down all these foes to save the life of the woman he loves and his own.

The latest installment in James Lee Burke's masterful Holland family saga, Another Kind of Eden is both riveting and one of Burke's most ambitious works to date. It dismantles the myths of both the twentieth-century American West and the peace-and-love decade, excavating the beauty and idealism of the era to show the menace and chaos that lay simmering just beneath the surface.

Another Kind of Eden

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#alysonnoel #bestselling-author #wish #ya #youngadult #middleschool #exlibrary. Ex-library book in very good condition.

Is being famous the key to living the life of your (tween) dreams? Find out in this modern-day fairy tale from #1 New York Times bestselling author Alyson Noël!

 
Seventh-grade girls like guys who are cool. And Nick Dashaway . . . is not cool.  
When Nick makes a wish after the epic disaster that was the Greentree Middle School Talent Show, he doesn't actually think it's going to come true. But it does. Soon he has a whole new life--he's rich, he's popular, and girls laugh at all his jokes. He's famous. But when he begins to miss parts of his old life, is it too late to get it back? 

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"A Hollywood blockbuster waiting to happen."--Booklist

"Perfect for readers wondering what their dream life would be like."--SLJ 






Five Days of Famous

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Library markings on an excellent condition book. 

Anticipating a successful final year of high school in a new community, star student and athlete Rosie gives way to behaviors that reveal to her increasingly horrified parents that she has been abusing drugs and telling costly lies. By the author of Operating Instructions.

Imperfect Birds

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Ex library book with markings in excellent condition. 

Years of Transition

Here is a royal book with a difference. It is a family saga showing the monarchy from the death of Queen Victoria to the present day. But rather than just an account of the reign of the five 20th-century monarchs, this is a study of their dynasty; of both its major and minor members. The entire royal family is vividly portrayed - with its triumphs and its heartbreaks, its brilliance and its mediocrity, its strengths and its vulnerabilities.

The main theme explores the way in which, in over eighty years, the royal family has adapted to changing times in order not only to survive but to enhance its position in national and international life. It is an account of a royal house in the state of continuous transition; of a family deeply concerned with making itself relevant to contemporary life while retaining its essential element of mystique.

Many other interesting themes also emerge: the education and upbringing of the royal children, the reconciling of public obligations with private inclinations, the constitutional position of the monarch, the frustrations of heirs-apparent, the varied and often onerous duties of family members, the composition of the royal households, the relationship with the press, the contrasting atmosphere of the different reigns, the marriages, the divorces, and the sometimes disastrous love affairs.

Theo Aronson in writing this book has received an exceptional degree of cooperation from the Palace. He has been granted audiences with members of four generations of the royal family: the late Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret and the Prince of Wales. He has also had help from members of the various royal households - secretaries, comptrollers, press secretaries, equerries and ladies-in-waiting.

The late C. P. Snow has described Theo Aronson's writing as 'bright with intelligence and human wisdom... very highly recommended'.

Sue Grafton

M Is for Malice

Elisha Goldstein

The Now Effect

Laura Ruby

Lily's Ghosts

Alison Jackson; Judy Schachner (Illustrator)

I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie

Nicci French

Killing Me Softly

Margaret Truman

Women of Courage

Teresa Swift

Knight's Ardor

John Cornwell

Hitler's Pope

Liz Hartman Musiker

The Smart Girl's Guide to Sports

Dawn Miller

The Journal of Callie Wade

Marie Osmond; Marcia Wilkie; Judith Moore

Behind the Smile

Bette Bao Lord; Bette Bao Lord Enterprises, Inc.

The Middle Heart

V. C. Andrews

Whitefern

Carola Dunn

Polly and the Prince

Jon Stewart

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth (the Book)

Nelson DeMille

Radiant Angel

A. J. Finn

The Woman in the Window

James Patterson; Howard Roughan (As told to)

Killer Instinct

Geoffrey Wood

Leaper

Virginia Lee

The Magic Moth

James Lee Burke

Another Kind of Eden

Alyson Noel

Five Days of Famous

Anne Lamott

Imperfect Birds

Theo Aronson

Royal Family