Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Idaho

The Fifth Assassin

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Kansas

A Novel

FBI Special Agent Kate Winslow uses her own schemes to outmaneuver charming con man Danny Cole, who becomes an unlikely partner when her next mission pits her against a formidable adversary.

The Heist

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Delaware

Treasured Letters from Your King a Devotional for Children

A True Fairy Tale

Cinderella is a great story, but after the last page is turned, little girls can't look forward to the tale coming true when they grow up. It's just "for pretend." Now girls ages four to nine can unveil the reality of their royal calling! His Little Princess shows them that they are not pretend princesses...because God is for real! When a grown-up sits down to read out loud these touching love letters, girls will come to understand and embrace how much they are truly loved and adored by God, the King of kings!

A Daughter of the King

Every little girl dreams of being a princess. And for the one who trusts in God, the Word heralds a most beautiful truth: She is the chosen daughter of the King of all kings. She is a true princess!

Here is a majestic gift for that special young one in your life--personal letters written from her King. Each day a new letter will inspire her to live and act like the radiant princess she is!

Story Behind the Book

"If we can help our daughters learn from a young age that they are God's chosen princesses, we will help them to win the identity struggles they will face as teens. While we have influence in their lives, we need to deposit in their hearts and minds how much they are loved and how important they are in God's kingdom. This book will give girls godly confidence that they are chosen by the King of all kings. Read one each day to them and watch them grow into the princesses they are destined to be!"
--Sheri Rose Shepherd

His Little Princess

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Can You Spot the Truth from the Lies?

Fact or Fiction?  Kids and adults alike will have fun finding out if what they think they already know is actually truth or lies.  The fun is in quizzing yourself, then finding out the answers.  After you do that, you can try it on your friends!

Whether it's facts about dinosaurs or a myth about oceans that they always thought was true, the fun facts in this book are guaranteed to amaze kids and parents alike. From weird animal behavior to ancient civilizations, from mighty dinosaurs to fabulous inventions kids can discover the remarkable truth or uncover amazing myth busters. First, they can test their knowledge at the beginning of each chapter and then turn the page to find out what is true and what is false.

 

 * True or False: Cockroaches can survive without their heads - True! Since they can survive for many days without food, cockroaches don't need their heads to keep going. Unlike humans, cockroaches breathe through parts of their body, there is no nose on their heads. It can survive for weeks without one. Talk about a brawny bug!


 

 * True or False: An avalanche can happen if someone yells on a snow-covered mountain - False! In movies and TV shows, avalanches are triggered when someone shouts or fires a gun. In reality, this isn't powerful enough to start one. Many avalanches are caused when the weight of a person crossing an unstable slope dislodges the snow so it rushes down the mountain, often taking the person with it.


 

 * True or False: The first explorer to reach the South Pole was Robert Falcon Scott - False! In 1912, when Robert Falcon Scott made a grueling trek to the South Pole, he found himself in a race with a team of Norwegians, led by Roald Amundsen. Both men were determined to reach the Pole first. When Scott's team finally reached their target, to the dismay they found the Norwegians had beaten them to it - by a moth! On the return journey, Scott and his team perished from starvation and frostbite.


 

 * True or False: The skeletons of babies and adult humans have the same number of parts - False! When babies are born, their skeletons contain nearly 300 parts. As they grow older, some of the parts fuse together, and by adulthood, the skeleton consists of 206 bones.


 

 * True or False: The human nose produces a cupful of mucus everyday - False! Scientists have estimated the nose can produce up to a liter a day of mucus, most of which will be swallowed. Snot traps dirt, pollen and germs, and stops them from getting in your lungs, which could make you ill. The mucus near your nostrils dries our around the particles, forming a green lump. The rest of the mucus slides down your throat. Yuck!


 

With these and hundreds more incredible true or false questions, kids will have a great time testing their knowledge and learning incredible truths and uncovering lousy lies!

Liar! Liar! Pants on Fire!

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#hardcover #feminism #fiction #girlpower #ya #youngadult #contemporary 

Minnesota

Eighteen-year-old Libby Stowe navigates the fallout of a drunken hookup with a coworker, a myriad of family issues, and a powerful man in her town sexually harassing her at work.

He Must Like You

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Rhode Island

In Twenty Questions, one of America's finest poet-critics leads readers into the mysteries of poetry: how it draws on our lives, and how it leads us back into them. In a series of linked essays progressing from the autobiographical to the critical--and closing with a remarkable translation of Horace's Ars Poetica unavailable elsewhere--J. D. McClatchy's latest book offers an intimate and illuminating look into the poetic mind.

McClatchy begins with a portrait of his development as a poet and as a man, and provides vibrant details about some of those who helped shape his sensibility--from Anne Sexton in her final days, to Harold Bloom, his enigmatic teacher at Yale, to James Merrill, a wise and witty mentor. All of these glimpses into McClatchy's personal history enhance our understanding of a coming of age from ingenious reader to accomplished poet-critic.

Later sections range through poetry past and present--from Emily Dickinson to Seamus Heaney and W. S. Merwin--with incisive criticism generously interspersed with vivid anecdotes about McClatchy's encounters with other poets' lives and work. A critical unpacking of Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Miss Blount" is interwoven with compassionate psychological portrait of a brilliant poet plagued by both romantic longings and debilitating physical deformities. There are surprising takes on the literary imagination as well: a look at Elizabeth Bishop through her letters, and a tribute to the Broadway lyrics of Stephen Sondheim and the tradition of light verse.

The questions McClatchy poses of poems prompt a fresh look and the last word. Free of scholarly pretension, elegantly and movingly written, Twenty Questions is a bright, open window onto a public and private experience of poetry, to be appreciated by poets, readers, and critics alike.

Twenty Questions

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New and Selected Poems, 1972-2004

Offers a collection of poems that explore urban life, travel, and the depths of the human experience.

Crossing the Equator

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Things You Didn't Know About Things You Know Well

Who Knew?

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THE GREENTAIL MOUSE 

Collected Poems 1959-1982

These two books, published simultaneously, contain all the poetry of Mona Van Duyn, except for her Pulitzer Prize-winning Near Changes, available as a separate volume. Firefall contains the most recent work of the 1992-3 Poet Laureate of the United States. From the Trade Paperback edition.

If It Be Not I

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The best-selling author team of Derek and Julia Parker provide in-depth coverage of each Sun sign and the effect of the Moon upon them. All the physical, emotional and intellectual traits are revealed, providing an attractive and comprehensive profile.

Love Signs

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CELEBRATING THE MYSTERY AND MAGICOF TRUE FRIENDSHIP 

THE BEST OF FRIENDS 

VOLUME 4

VICTORIA'S SECRET BEAUTY OF LOVE

DAY BY DAY 

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An examination of sibling rivalry provides insight into the relationships of brothers and sisters, as the six-year-old Pain and his eight-year-old sister, The Great One, engage in an age-old conflict.

Soupy Saturdays with The Pain and The Great One

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Georgia

Originally published: London: Bonnie Zaffre, Ltd., 2018 under the title, Big bones.

My Ideal Boyfriend Is a Croissant

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#hardcover #youngadult #juvenilefiction #college #coed #youngadult #fiction

Before heading off to college in the fall, Rachel Walls decides to give in to the universe for the summer and say yes to everything, bringing her friendship, new experiences, and, if she lets her guard down, love.

Say Yes Summer

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Texas

A sharp and prescient novel about women in the workplace, the power of Big Tech, and the looming threat of foreign espionage from Kathy Wang, "a skilled satirist of the northern California dream" (Harper's Bazaar) In 2006 Julia Lerner is living in Moscow, a recent university graduate in computer science, when she's recruited by Russia's largest intelligence agency. By 2018 she's in Silicon Valley as COO of Tangerine, one of America's most famous technology companies. In between her executive management (make offers to promising startups, crush them and copy their features if they refuse); self promotion (check out her latest op-ed in the WSJ, on Work/Life Balance 2.0); and work in gender equality (transfer the most annoying females from her team), she funnels intelligence back to the motherland. But now Russia's asking for more, and Julia's getting nervous. Alice Lu is a first generation Chinese American whose parents are delighted she's working at Tangerine (such a successful company!). Too bad she's slogging away in the lower echelons, recently dumped, and now sharing her expensive two-bedroom apartment with her cousin Cheri, a perennial "founder's girlfriend". One afternoon, while performing a server check, Alice discovers some unusual activity, and now she's burdened with two powerful but distressing suspicions: Tangerine's privacy settings aren't as rigorous as the company claims they are, and the person abusing this loophole might be Julia Lerner herself. The closer Alice gets to Julia, the more Julia questions her own loyalties. Russia may have placed her in the Valley, but she's the one who built her career; isn't she entitled to protect the lifestyle she's earned? Part page-turning cat-and-mouse chase, part sharp and hilarious satire, Impostor Syndrome is a shrewdly-observed examination of women in tech, Silicon Valley hubris, and the rarely fulfilled but ever-attractive promise of the American Dream.

Impostor Syndrome

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#hardcover #fiction #design #interiordesign 

A comic experiment in sociology and self-absorption, the award-winning author Thomas Clerc's autobiographical Interior is a unique invitation into a professor's preoccupations and possessions within the rooms of a small Parisian apartment. Composed of bite-size vignettes, remembrances, and digressions, and filled with lighthearted transitions from pure description to quirky reminiscence and back, this meticulous tour through the rooms of Clerc's home reveals fascinating insights into the author's obsessions, desires, and frustrations. Each space is described in painstaking detail, sometimes down to the centimeter, and the history of every object and appliance is fully excavated with self-deprecating wit. From the ideal varieties of bathroom reading material to the color of his dish rack to the chaos of his sock drawer, Clerc happily and shamelessly guides us through the most intimate crannies of his home, as well as through all the strata of his existence as a bourgeois city dweller approaching middle age. Playful and irreverent, as well as a sly commentary on materialism, Interior finds drama in the domestic and dark humor in every doomed attempt to express individuality through the things that we own.

Interior

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GEM & DIXIE tells the story of teen sisters who have developed their own ways of coping with neglectful parents. Gem, the older sister, takes on the role of watcher and caregiver for her sister and single mother. She listens for signs of alcohol or drug use in her mother's voice and keeps an eye on her sister. Dixie operates on hope with a little bit of grit, using her looks to get what she wants, such as much needed food and attention. Though close when they were little, the sisters have grown apart in their teen years. Dixie's popular and confident, while Gem's an anxious loner with no friends. When their manipulative, long-absent dad re-enters the picture, he unwittingly sets in motion an escapade for the girls. The two take off for a while, alternately reconnecting and fighting, trying to figure out where things went so wrong between them and how they can maintain their sanity living in an unstable home with absent parents. They struggle with wanting to believe their family can turn things around vs. accepting that some people are messed up and you have to do what you can to save yourself. The story highlights how kids suffering from neglect can be easily overlooked by those who are supposed to help them.

Gem and Dixie

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#hardcover #fiction #everafterhigh #kids #fantasy 

A Guide to Living Evilly Ever After

This book is your glimpse into the delightfully twisted mind of the Evil Queen... find out what really makes her tick, and what malevolent lessons she wants to pass along to her daughter Raven. © 2016 Mattel. All Rights Reserved.

Ever after High: Diary of an Evil Queen

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#hardcover #fiction #youngadult #contemporary #ya #youngadultfiction #romance #arrangedmarriage 

When Dimple Shah and Rishi Patel meet at a Stanford University summer program, Dimple is avoiding her parents' obsession with "marriage prospects" but Rishi hopes to woo her into accepting arranged marriage with him.

Brad Meltzer

The Fifth Assassin

Janet Evanovich; Lee Goldberg

The Heist

Sheri Rose Shepherd; Lisa Marie Browning (Illustrator)

His Little Princess

Jan Payne

Liar! Liar! Pants on Fire!

Danielle Younge-Ullman

He Must Like You

J. D. McClatchy

Twenty Questions

Nicholas Christopher

Crossing the Equator

David Hoffman

Who Knew?

KEO LIONNI

THE GREENTAIL MOUSE

Mona Van Duyn

If It Be Not I

Julia Parker

Love Signs

SARAH MUELLER

THE BEST OF FRIENDS

UNKNOWN

VICTORIA'S SECRET BEAUTY OF LOVE

ROBERT LOWELL

DAY BY DAY

Judy Blume

Soupy Saturdays with The Pain and The Great One

Laura Dockrill

My Ideal Boyfriend Is a Croissant

Lindsey Roth Culli

Say Yes Summer

Kathy Wang

Impostor Syndrome

Thomas Clerc

Interior

Sara Zarr

Gem and Dixie

Stacia Deutsch

Ever after High: Diary of an Evil Queen

Sandhya Menon

When Dimple Met Rishi

Jocelyn Stevenson

Best Friends

Tedd Arnold

There's a Fly Guy in My Soup