Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Arizona

Featuring new work from Mieko Kawakami, Martín Espada, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Arthur Sze, Camonghne Felix, and more, the latest installment of the acclaimed literary journal Freeman's explores the irrevocably intertwined lives of animals and the humans that exist alongside them

Over a century ago, Rilke went to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, where he watched a pair of flamingos. A flock of other birds screeched by, and, as he describes in a poem, the great red-pink birds sauntered on, unphased, then "stretched amazed and singly march into the imaginary." This encounter--so strange, so typical of flamingos, with their fabulous posture--is also still typical of how we interact with animals. Even as our actions threaten their very survival, they are still symbolic, captivating and captive, caught in a drama of our framing 

This issue of Freeman's tells the story of that interaction, its costs, its tendernesses, the mythological flex of it. From lovers in a Chiara Barzini story, falling apart as a group of wild boars roams in their Roman neighborhood, to the soppen emergency birth of a cow on a Wales farm, stunningly described by Cynan Jones, no one has the moral high ground here. Nor is this a piece of mourning. There's wonder, humor, rage, and relief, too.

Featuring pigeons, calves, stray dogs, mascots, stolen cats, and bears, to the captive, tortured animals who make up our food supply, powerfully described in Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk's essay, this wide-ranging issue of Freeman's will stimulate discussion and dreams alike. 



Freeman's: Animals

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New Jersey

A Novel

Hilarious and poignant, The Gargoyle Hunters is a love letter to a vanishing city, and a deeply emotional story of fathers and sons. Intimately portraying New York's elbow-jostling relationship with time, the novel solves the mystery of a brazen and seemingly impossible architectural heist--the theft of an entire historic Manhattan building--that stunned the city and made the front page of The New York Times in 1974.

With both his family and his city fracturing, thirteen-year-old Griffin Watts is recruited into his estranged father's illicit and dangerous architectural salvage business. Small and nimble, Griffin is charged with stealing exuberantly expressive nineteenth-century architectural sculptures--gargoyles--right off the faces of unsung tenements and iconic skyscrapers all over town. As his father explains it, these gargoyles, carved and cast by immigrant artisans during the city's architectural glory days, are an endangered species in this era of sweeping urban renewal.
          Desperate both to connect with his father and to raise cash to pay the mortgage on the brownstone where he lives with his mother and sister, Griffin is slow to recognize that his father's deepening obsession with preserving the architectural treasures of Beaux Arts New York is also a destructive force, imperiling Griffin's friendships, his relationship with his very first girlfriend, and even his life.
           As his father grows increasingly possessive of both Griffin's mother and his scavenged touchstones of the lost city, Griffin must learn how to build himself into the person he wants to become and discover which parts of his life can be salvaged--and which parts must be let go. Maybe loss, he reflects, is the only thing no one can ever take away from you.
            Tender, funny, and achingly sad, The Gargoyle Hunters introduces an extraordinary new novelist.

The Gargoyle Hunters

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Virginia

Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation

Thirty-six major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided America—including Anthony Doerr, Ann Patchett, Roxane Gay, Rebecca Solnit, Hector Tobar, Joyce Carol Oates, Edwidge Danticat, Richard Russo, Eula Bliss, Karen Russell, and many more America is broken. You don’t need a fistful of statistics to know this. Visit any city, and evidence of our shattered social compact will present itself. From Appalachia to the Rust Belt and down to rural Texas, the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest stretches to unimaginable chasms. Whether the cause of this inequality is systemic injustice, the entrenchment of racism in our culture, the long war on drugs, or immigration policies, it endangers not only the American Dream but our very lives. In Tales of Two Americas, some of the literary world’s most exciting writers look beyond numbers and wages to convey what it feels like to live in this divided nation. Their extraordinarily powerful stories, essays, and poems demonstrate how boundaries break down when experiences are shared, and that in sharing our stories we can help to alleviate a suffering that touches so many people.

Tales of Two Americas

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

Wisconsin

A politically urgent yet timeless collection that studiesthe devastating failings of humanity and the redemptive possibilities of love.

In Wind, Trees, John Freeman presents a meditation onpower and loss, change and adaptation. What can the trees teach us aboutinhabiting space together? What might we gain if we admit we do not control thewind, and cannot possibly carry all we've been handed? Offering a stark moral critiqueof pandemic self-preservation--as "justifications grew / with greed like vines /up the side of a tree / taking everything"--Wind, Trees joins the ranksof politically urgent yet timeless collections like The Lice by W.S.Merwin. Through narrative lyric and metaphysical pulse, meandering thought andpunctuating quiet, Freeman studies the devastating failings of humanity and theredemptive possibilities of love.

Wind, Trees

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Massachusetts

For John Freeman--literary critic, essayist, editor, poet, "one of the preeminent book people of our time" (Dave Eggers)--it is the rare moment when words are not enough. But in the wake of the election of 2016, words felt useless, even indulgent. Action was the only reasonable response. He took to the streets in protest, and the sense of community and collective conviction felt right. But the assaults continued--on citizens' rights and long-held compacts, on the core principles of our culture and civilization, and on our language itself. Words seemed to be losing the meanings they once had and Freeman was compelled to return to their defense. The result is his Dictionary of the Undoing.

From A to Z, "Agitate" to "Zygote," Freeman assembled the words that felt most essential, most potent, and began to build a case for their renewed power and authority, each word building on the last. The message that emerged was not to retreat behind books, but to emphatically engage in the public sphere, to redefine what it means to be a literary citizen.

With an afterword by Valeria Luiselli, Dictionary of the Undoing is a necessary, resounding cri de coeur in defense of language, meaning, and our ability to imagine, describe, and build a better world.

Dictionary of the Undoing (Signed)

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California

English

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Kansas

How to Get the Best Picture Every Time, with Any Kind of Camera

* a simple-to-follow practical manual devised by one of the world's leading professionals * featuring over 800 photographic examples and illustrations designed to highlight and clarify every tip and technique * how to use every type of equipment - from getting the best out of autofocus and instant cameras, to advanced and specialist models and accessories * special features on all the most popular photographic subjects, including children, holidays, people and portraits, landscapes, skies, pets, water, the weather, and travel * get the results you want every time with complete confidence.

The Photographer's Manual

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"The oldest is 70. The youngest, 26. In between, the best list of this kind I have ever seen."--Marlon James

In three issues, the literary anthology from leading editor John Freeman has gained an international following and wide acclaim: "fresh, provocative, engrossing" (BBC.com), "impressively diverse" (O Magazine), "bold, searching" (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). Freeman's: The Future of New Writing departs from the series' progression of themes. This special fourth installment instead introduces a list--to be announced just before publication--of more than twenty-five poets, essayists, novelists, and short story writers from around the world who are shaping the literary conversation right now and will continue to impact it in years to come.

Drawing on recommendations from book editors, critics, translators, and authors from across the globe, Freeman's: The Future of New Writing includes pieces from a select list of writers aged 25 to 70, from nearly twenty countries, and writing in almost as many languages. This will be a new kind of list, and an aesthetic manifesto for our times. Against a climate of nationalism and silo'd thinking, writers remain influenced by work from outside their region, genre, and especially age group. Serious readers, this special issue celebrates, have always read this way too--and Freeman's: The Future of New Writing brings them an exciting view of where writing is going next.

Freeman's now has partners around the world, in the UK (Grove Press UK), Australia (Text Publishing), Sweden (Bokförlaget Polaris), Italy (Edizioni Black Coffee), and Romania (Black Button), and China (Archipel Press)

Freeman's: the Future of New Writing

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Pennsylvania

Social Studies

Maine

Electives

The Expert's Manual on Taking Great Photographs

This book explores both digital and film photography, providing the enthusiast with information on everything from understanding aperture and focus to manipulating ima ges for maximum effect using computer software. All the basics are covered, from holding a camera to using a tripod and knowing which films and lenses to buy. Creative advice on framing and setting up shots, choosing the most effective point of view and looking for texture, shape and composition opportunities will help amateurs to advance their photography to a new level. With over 1700 photographs and d iagrams, this manual is essential for anyone with an interest in photography.

The Illustrated Practical Guide to Digital and Classic Photography

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Get the best picture every time with your camera.Over 800 photographic examples and illustrations designed  to highlight and clarity every tip and techniques. #paperback 

Illinois

How to get the best picture every time, with any kind of camera 

The photographers manual 

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Alabama

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Florida

A Comprehensive Guide to the Designs, Customs, and Inventions of the Victorian Era

From Abbotsford to the Wooton Desk, here's a comprehensive guide to the people, traditions, and culture of the Victorian Era. Organized alphabetically, entries are complemented by period illustrations and full-color photographs.

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Victoriana

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Margaret Thatcher, from Grocer's Daughter to Prime Minister

The Iron Lady, the definitive Margaret Thatcher biography, is available just in time for the movie starring Meryl Streep as one of the most infamous figures in postwar politics. Whether you love her or hate her, Margaret Thatcher's impact on twentieth-century history is undeniable. From her humble, small-town upbringing to her rise to power as the United Kingdom's first female prime minister, to her dramatic fall from grace after more than three decades of service, celebrated biographer John Campbell delves into the story of this fascinating woman's life as no one has before. The result of more than nine years of meticulous research, The Iron Lady is the only balanced, unvarnished portrait of Margaret Thatcher, one of the most vital and controversial political figures of our time.

The Iron Lady

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The Day of Infamy - An Illustrated History

Explores the causes and effects of the battle and provides first-hand accounts from the people who were there, including Japanese and Americans, military and civilian.

Pearl Harbor

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Educational 

Planning and Administering Early Childhood Programs,Ninth Edition, is build on the conviction that thoughtful planning and administration are essential to the success of early childhood programs. The authors' main priority is to present the rationale for thoughtful planning and administration. The more administrators know about factors influencing quality programs, the better equipped they will be to plan and administer their own high quality programs.

With that in mind, this text addresses all aspects of program administration, taking readers from the earliest stages of planning the facility and identifying the program's goals, through program implementation and evaluation. It is a practical and readable resource intended for students of program administaration as well as practicing program administrators. Both groups will find the book to be a resource that will ensure their success in thier chosen field. Each chapter includes practical Application Activities and refers readers to authoratative websites that enhance and elaborate on topical discussions. Two new co-authors bring additional insights and experience in developing and directing child development centers.

Covering a range of topics from developing a mission statement, to financing and budgeting, to furnishing and design, this is a truly comprehensive volume on planning and maintaining a successful early childhood care center.

Planning and Administering Early Childhood Programs

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Connecting with What Really Matters

Unlacing the Heart is a book of true-life stories that capture moments of deep personal connection between people living very different lives. Of Alfredo, a homeless man who invited Henry Freeman into his life; of Jane, a Yale student who needed help coming out from under the burden of a high society family; of Sister Margaret, a Franciscan nun who joyfully shared her gift for uncovering the good in people we often fear and hate; of Mary, a person trapped in the body of a bag lady with only one true friend; and of an elderly woman also named Margaret who found in a meal of Omaha steak and asparagus a safe space to share her joys, her fears and the news of her pending death. Henry Freeman shares with us a rare gift that extends far beyond his professional expertise as a fundraising consultant. It is a gift he, a Quaker, received from his mentor and friend Henri Nouwen, an author and Catholic theologian whose writings on spirituality and the human condition touch the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Indeed, the author's most powerful stories-the ones that lead readers on an inner journey and exploration of their own vulnerable spaces-reflect the presence of Nouwen in the author's life and the words he shares in this book's pages. In his Foreword to Unlacing the Heart noted author John Stewart reminds us that for thousands of years Jewish scholars have lifted up the books of Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes as wisdom literature because they contain important reflections on the human condition and clarify how we as human beings are to live in the world. He then goes on to embrace Unlacing the Heart as a modern-day example of wisdom literature. What more compelling introduction could be offered to a first-time author's work?

Unlacing the Heart

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Lily, the duckling, can't fall asleep. The farm is much too noisy, and Lily is much too curious. So Mother Rabbit and Lily embark on a sleepy, barnyard adventure and find that each animal has a special way of preparing for bedtime. "[Bendall-Brunello's] openhearted characterizations meld beautifully with the sweet snugness of Freedman's lilting prose." - Publishers Weekly. "A bedtime treat for the ears." - Kirkus Reviews

Hushabye Lily

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All books have name handwriting on it. Other than that, they’re all in great condition.

- My New Boy
- Go, Dog, Go
- Sleepy Dog, Wake Up!
- Mrs. Wow Never Wanted a Cow

John Freeman

Freeman's: Animals

John Freeman Gill

The Gargoyle Hunters

John Freeman (Editor)

Tales of Two Americas

John Freeman

Freeman's: Animals

John Freeman

Wind, Trees

Valeria Luiselli (Afterword by); John Freeman

Dictionary of the Undoing (Signed)

John Freeman (Editor)

Tales of Two Americas

John Freeman

The Photographer's Manual

John Freeman

Freeman's: the Future of New Writing

John Freeman (Editor)

Tales of Two Americas

Steve Luck; John Freeman

The Illustrated Practical Guide to Digital and Classic Photography

John Freeman

The Photographer's Manual

John Freeman

The photographers manual

John Freeman Gill

The Gargoyle Hunters

John C. Freeman; Nancy Ruhling

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Victoriana

John Campbell; David Freeman (Abridged by)

The Iron Lady

Dan Van der Vat; Tom Freeman (Photographer); John McCain (Introduction by); John B. Lundstrom (Contribution by)

Pearl Harbor

John Campbell; David Freeman (Abridged by)

The Iron Lady

Celia A. Decker; John R. Decker; Herman Knopf; Nancy Freeman

Planning and Administering Early Childhood Programs

Henry Freeman; The Henri Nouwen Society (Assisted by); John Stewart (Foreword by); William Enright (Reviewed by); Larry Spears (Reviewed by); Richard Wood (Reviewed by); Sue Mosteller (Reviewed by, Assisted by); Timothy McElwee (Reviewed by); Colin Saxton (Reviewed by); Jim Wallis ((various roles))

Unlacing the Heart

Claire Freedman; John Bendall-Brunello (Illustrator)

Hushabye Lily

Joan Philips; PD Eastman; Harriet Ziefert; Martha Freeman

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