#hardcover #nonfiction #selfhelp #beingtruetoyourself #bodymindspirit #happiness #personalgrowth #friendships 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

Stories about Friendship, Love, and Being True to Yourself

As Melanie Shankle - New York Times bestselling author and founder of the Big Mama blog - opens up with humor and great stories about friendship, love, and what it takes to be true to yourself, you'll be encouraged to find your way again in a world that can make you feel a little bit crazy.

On the Bright Side

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#hardcover #business #managingpeople #enpowerment

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Wisconsin

Explores the need to create employee-driven work environments, defining three key elements of success and helping readers understand the challenges they face

Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Computer Science

The Worlds Easiest Computer Book

#hardcover #africanamerican #familytradition #johnransome #blackhistorymonth

Ohio

Sunday afternoons are special for Sarah and Susan because that's when they visit Aunt Flossie -- she has a memorable collection of hats, each with a special story.

Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Later)

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#hardcover #bible #prayer #womensdevotional

Mississippi

Words of Comfort for a Sweet, Peaceful Sleep

200 Nighttime Prayers for Women

#hardcover #childrens #picturebook #guesshowmuchiloveyou

California

During a bedtime game, every time Little Nutbrown Hare demonstrates how much he loves his father, Big Nutbrown Hare gently shows him that the love is returned even more.

Guess How Much I Love You

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North Dakota

More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

Lucado asks questions about grace to probe the depth of God's love. The bestselling author says that God's grace has a wildness about it and invites readers to learn more.

Grace

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Dietary Approaches to Healthy Living

"Nearly one in four Americans have high blood pressure, and with it incur a major risk of heart attack, atherosclerosis, kidney failure, and more. Fortunately, there is something you can do to prevent this: nutrition is the safest and least complicated part of a proven strategy to prevent and treat this debilitating disease." "The Sarah W. Stedman Center for Nutritional Studies at top-ranked Duke University Medical Center has pioneered research on the relationship of nutrition and disease, and now offers this succinct, authoritative, and balanced guide for using nutrition to maintain good health." "You'll find simple explanations of how high blood pressure affects your body, and how to determine if you're at risk for the disease. Then you'll learn which nutrients affect your heart and circulatory system, what the best sources are in everyday foods, and how to make sure that you and your family are following a healthy diet and getting the most out of it by the way you choose and prepare foods. You'll learn new shopping strategies and cooking ideas (including fifty original recipes), and tips for diet "survival" in restaurants and away from home." "Hypertension affects women and men of all ages, but now you can help keep your family in good health."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Hypertension

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A Memoir

From one of America's foremost young literary voices, a transcendent portrait of the unbearable anguish of grief and the enduring power of familial love.

What does it mean to mourn today, in a culture that has largely set aside rituals that acknowledge grief? After her mother died of cancer at the age of fifty-five, Meghan O'Rourke found that nothing had prepared her for the intensity of her sorrow. In the first anguished days, she began to create a record of her interior life as a mourner, trying to capture the paradox of grief-its monumental agony and microscopic intimacies-an endeavor that ultimately bloomed into a profound look at how caring for her mother during her illness changed and strengthened their bond.

O'Rourke's story is one of a life gone off the rails, of how watching her mother's illness-and separating from her husband-left her fundamentally altered. But it is also one of resilience, as she observes her family persevere even in the face of immeasurable loss.

With lyricism and unswerving candor, The Long Goodbye conveys the fleeting moments of joy that make up a life, and the way memory can lead us out of the jagged darkness of loss. Effortlessly blending research and reflection, the personal and the universal, it is not only an exceptional memoir, but a necessary one.

The Long Goodbye

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In David Gordon's diabolically imaginative new thriller, The Bouncer, nothing and no one is as expected--from a vial of yellow fragrance to a gangster who moonlights in women's clothes.

Joe Brody is just your average Dostoevsky-reading, Harvard-expelled strip club bouncer who has a highly classified military history and whose best friend from Catholic school happens to be head mafioso Gio Caprisi. FBI agent Donna Zamora, the best shot in her class at Quantico, is a single mother stuck at a desk manning the hotline. Their storylines intersect over a tip from a cokehead that leads to a crackdown on Gio's strip joint in Queens and Joe's arrest--just one piece of a city-wide sweep aimed at flushing out anyone who might have a lead on the various terrorists whose photos are hanging on the wall under Most Wanted. Outside the jailhouse, the Fed and the bouncer lock eyes, as Gordon launches them both headlong into a nonstop plot that goes from back-road gun show intervention to high-stakes perfume heist and manages to touch everyone from the CIA to the Flushing Triads. Beneath it all lurks a sinister criminal mastermind whose manipulations could cause chaos on a massively violent scale.

For readers who like a heavy dose of fun with their murder, this is crime fiction at its freshest, from a virtuoso of the "darkly comic, stylish literary thriller" (Associated Press).

The Bouncer

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In the tradition of The Fault in Our Stars, critically acclaimed author Melissa Kantor masterfully captures the joy of friendship, the agony of loss, and the unique experience of being a teenager in this poignant new novel about a girl grappling with her best friend's life-threatening illness. A person's whole life, she's lucky to have one or two real friends. Friends who are like family . . . for Zoe that someone is Olivia. So when Olivia is diagnosed with leukemia Zoe is determined to put on a brave face and be positive for her best friend. Even when she isn't sure what to say. Even when Olivia misses months of school. Even when Zoe starts falling for Calvin, Olivia's crush. The one thing that keeps Zoe moving forward is knowing that Olivia will beat this, and everything will go back to the way it was before. It has to. Because the alternative is too terrifying for her to even imagine.

Maybe One Day

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#hardcover #fiction #paperback #thriller 

Tennessee

Originally published: London: Piatkus, 2015.

The Quality of Silence

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A Novel

Haunted by a past crime and a past lover, a psychoanalyst tries to protect his daughter from his mistakes—but at what cost? “This dazzling gothic-tinged thriller takes us deep into a labyrinth of secrets, lies, and deceptions.”—Dan Chaon, New York Times bestselling author of Ill Will Daniel Abend is a single parent in New York City, with a successful therapy practice and a comfortable life: an apartment on the Upper West Side, a teenage daughter, a peaceful daily routine. When one of his patients commits suicide, it is a tragedy, but one easily explained: The young woman suffered from depression and drug addiction. But soon after, Daniel receives an ominous note that makes him question the circumstances surrounding his patient’s death. He is provided with a provocative series of clues—a mysterious key, a cryptic poem, a photograph with a chilling message. A few days later, his daughter abruptly disappears. Daniel is swept into an increasingly desperate search for his daughter, and for the truth—a search that stretches back decades, to when he was a young man living in Paris, falling in love with a woman who would ultimately upend his life. As he is tormented by a steady flow of anonymous letters, Daniel recognizes that he must confront the secrets of his past: There is a debt to be paid, an account to be settled. Advance praise for The Waters & The Wild “Elegant, elegiac, enigmatic: three words to describe The Waters & The Wild. DeSales Harrison crafts a series of intricate psychological layers that blur the lines between what is past and present, real and unreal. This is a compelling debut that is equal parts character study and literary labyrinth.”—Matthew Pearl, New York Times bestselling author of The Dante Club and The Last Bookaneer “A cryptic, beguiling puzzle-box of a book, The Waters & The Wild is chilling in its acuity and deep in its sorrows—a mesmeric exploration of guilt in the vein of Vertigo or The Secret History, with the frantic nightmare-logic of a thriller.”—David Gilbert, author of & Sons

The Waters and the Wild

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#hardcover #ninja #fiction #childrens   #childrensfiction #middlegrade

North Carolina

The second book in this action-packed adventure series follows a team of young ninjas to the final round of the first-ever Junior Ninja competition--perfect for young ninjas and ninja fans everywhere!



When tweens Izzy, Ty, Kevin, JJ, and Mackenzie heard there was going to be a kids' version of the reality-TV obstacle competition National Ninja Champion, they all found themselves drawn to Fit Kidz Gym. They quickly formed a team--training together and helping one another overcome all kinds of obstacles as they tried out for a spot on Junior Ninja Champion. It's surreal but exciting to watch themselves on TV . . . and the show is a huge hit! Now Izzy and JJ are headed to the finals in Hollywood, and the rest of the team is coming along to cheer them on. Ty is an alternate, hoping for his shot at glory. But when the show throws them a curve ball and announces a wildcard episode, it brings a new competitor to the Fit Kidz team and takes the competition up a notch. Who will lose their grip on victory, and who will climb their way to the top on the first season of Junior Ninja Champion?

Junior Ninja Champion: the Fastest Finish

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Virginia

The new novel from the best-selling author ofBroken for You spins the stories of a dedicated teacher, his enigmatic son, and a wartime survivor into an affecting tale of love, loss, and handwriting.



Charles Marlow teaches his high school English students that language will expand their worlds. But linguistic precision cannot help him connect with his autistic son, or with his ex-wife, who abandoned their shared life years before, or even with his college-bound daughter who has just flown the nest. He's at the end of a road he's traveled on autopilot for years when a series of events forces him to think back on the lifetime of decisions and indecisions that have brought him to this point. With the help of an ambitious art student, an Italian-speaking nun, and the memory of a boy in a white suit who inscribed his childhood with both solace and sorrow, Charles may finally be able to rewrite the script of his life.



Sometimes the most powerful words are the ones you're still searching for.

Language Arts

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#hardcover #fiction #youngadult #new #dystopian #scifi #sci-fy #ya #TheOnesWereMeantToFind #JoanHe #ExclusiveEdition

Barnes & Noble YA BOOK CLUB EXCLUSIVE EDITION

The Ones We’re Meant To Find

Florida

Cinderella 

A funny and honest coming-of age-story about first love and finding yourself, Here, There, Everywhere is perfect for fans of Andrew Smith and Becky Albertalli. Zeus would rather be anywhere than here—Buffalo Falls, the tiny town his family moved to at the end of the school year. Having left all his friends back in Chicago, and with nothing to look forward to except helping out at his mother’s café and biking around town with his weird little brother, Zeus is pretty sure this is destined to be the worst summer of his life. But then he meets Rose. Rose is funny, beautiful, smart, and an incredible musician; Zeus can hardly believe that someone like her exists, let alone seems interested in being with him. However, while Zeus is counting down the minutes until he can see her next, Rose is counting down the days until she finds out whether she will be able to leave their small town to pursue her dreams. As the afternoons spent going on local adventures pass into nights discussing their deepest hopes, Zeus knows that he doesn’t have long to convince Rose that what they have is more than a summer fling...if only he’s brave enough to seize the chance.

Here, There, Everywhere

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Two friends going to college on opposite sides of the country try to maintain their friendship through texts and e-mails.

I Hate Everyone but You

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#hardcover #biography #civilrights #martinlutherkingjr

Washington

A Search for Family and Truth in the Wake of the Civil Rights Revolution

On growing up in the American South of the 1960s--an all-American white boy--son of a long line of Methodist preachers, in the midst of the civil rights revolution, and discovering the culpability of silence within the church. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and columnist for The Birmingham News.

"My dad was a Methodist preacher and his dad was a Methodist preacher," writes John Archibald. "It goes all the way back on both sides of my family. When I am at my best, I think it comes from that sermon place."

Everything Archibald knows and believes about life is "refracted through the stained glass of the Southern church. It had everything to do with people. And fairness. And compassion."

In Shaking the Gates of Hell, Archibald asks: Can a good person remain silent in the face of discrimination and horror, and still be a good person?

Archibald had seen his father, the Rev. Robert L. Archibald, Jr., the son and grandson of Methodist preachers, as a moral authority, a moderate and a moderating force during the racial turbulence of the '60s, a loving and dependable parent, a forgiving and attentive minister, a man many Alabamians came to see as a saint. But was that enough? Even though Archibald grew up in Alabama in the heart of the civil rights movement, he could recall few words about racial rights or wrongs from his father's pulpit at a time the South seethed, and this began to haunt him.

In this moving and powerful book, Archibald writes of his complex search, and of the conspiracy of silence his father faced in the South, in the Methodist Church and in the greater Christian church. Those who spoke too loudly were punished, or banished, or worse. Archibald's father was warned to guard his words on issues of race to protect his family, and he did. He spoke to his flock in the safety of parable, and trusted in the goodness of others, even when they earned none of it, rising through the ranks of the Methodist Church, and teaching his family lessons in kindness and humanity, and devotion to nature and the Earth.

Archibald writes of this difficult, at times uncomfortable, reckoning with his past in this unadorned, affecting book of growth and evolution.

Shaking the Gates of Hell

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#hardcover #popular #neverread #whatshisface #gordonkorman #swindle #slacker #scholastic #childrens #restart

Illinois

Twelve-year-old Cooper Vega and his military family has moved so often that he is used to new schoolmates not knowing his name, but at the moment he has a bigger problem--his new phone is haunted by the ghost of Roderick Northrop, a boy from the sixteenth-century, who needs his help to finish a quest, which is somehow tied up in the Stratford Middle School production of Romeo and Juliet.

Whatshisface

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emmett till is always in my heart. his story is devastating, and he 100% deserved better. heartbreaking to think he still hasn’t been given justice. this book is a poem written to honor him, i highly recommend. #hardcover #emmetttill #blacklivesmatter #poem #neverread #popular #wreath #illustration #awardwinner #socialchange 

Presents fifteen interlinked sonnets to pay tribute to Emmitt Till, a fourteen-year-old African American boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for whistling at a while woman, and whose murderers were acquitted.

A Wreath for Emmett Till

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An interesting read for people looking for new change. #nonfiction #polysci #politicalscience #hardcover #political #politics 

New Mexico

Two Years in the Resistance

Senator Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign was a beginning, not an end. In his new book, America's most popular political figure speaks about what he's been doing to oppose the Trump agenda and strengthen the progressive movement and how we go forward as a nation.

Where We Go from Here

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*my kid photobombed a pic haha* #dennislehane #historicalfiction #mystery #thriller #mysterythriller #noir #suspense #hardcover 

Melanie Shankle

On the Bright Side

Ken Blanchard; John P. Carlos; Alan Randolph

Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute

By the editors of FC&A Publishing

The Worlds Easiest Computer Book

Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard; James E. Ransome (Illustrator)

Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Later)

Emily Biggers

200 Nighttime Prayers for Women

Sam McBratney; Anita Jeram (Illustrator)

Guess How Much I Love You

Max Lucado

Grace

Pao-Hwa Lin; Laura P. Svetkey; Connie W. Bales (Editor); Tamara Shusterman

Hypertension

Meghan O'Rourke

The Long Goodbye

David Gordon

The Bouncer

Melissa Kantor

Maybe One Day

Rosamund Lupton

The Quality of Silence

DeSales Harrison

The Waters and the Wild

Catherine Hapka

Junior Ninja Champion: the Fastest Finish

Stephanie Kallos

Language Arts

Joan He

The Ones We’re Meant To Find

Fairy Tale

Cinderella

Julia Durango; Tyler Terrones

Here, There, Everywhere

Gaby Dunn; Allison Raskin

I Hate Everyone but You

John Archibald

Shaking the Gates of Hell

Gordon Korman

Whatshisface

Marilyn Nelson; Philippe Lardy (Illustrator)

A Wreath for Emmett Till

Bernie Sanders

Where We Go from Here

Dennis Lehane

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