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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Arkansas

A Novel

Michael Kabongo is a British-Congolese teacher living in London when one day he suffers a devastating loss, and his life is thrown into a tailspin. As he struggles to find a way forward, Michael decides to spontaneously pack up and go to America - a place where he can become someone new, someone without a past filled with pain. On this transformative journey, Michael travels everywhere from New York City to San Francisco, splurging on big adventures with the intention of living the life of his dreams until the money in his bank account runs out. Author of "No Place to Call Home." Print run 60,000.

♻️ ARC - The Selfless Act of Breathing

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Wally Lamb

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Iowa

Anna Oh, a middle-age wife, mother and artist, divorces her husband after 27 years of marriage to marry Vivica, the Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her professional success.

We Are Water

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Val Emmich

Has black dot on the top. Some shelf wear. Never been read. 

Michigan

The Rosie Project meets Tell the Wolves I'm Home in this endearing debut about what happens when a girl who can't forget befriends a man who's desperate to remember. Grief-stricken over his partner's death, Gavin Winters sets fire to every physical reminder in the couple's home. A neighbor captures the ordeal on video, turning this unsung TV actor into a household name. Now Gavin is fleeing the hysteria of Los Angeles for New Jersey, hoping to find peace with the family of an old friend. Instead, he finds Joan. Joan, the family's ten-year-old daughter, was born with the rare ability to recall every day of her life in cinematic detail. In seconds, she can tell you how many times her mother has uttered the phrase "it never fails" in the last six months (twenty-seven) or what she was wearing when her grandfather took her fishing on a particular Sunday in June years ago (fox socks). Joan has never met Gavin until now, but she did know his partner, Sydney, and waiting inside her uncanny mind are a half dozen startlingly vivid memories to prove it. Gavin strikes a deal with Joan: in return for sharing all her memories of Sydney, Gavin will help Joan win a local songwriting contest she's convinced could make her unforgettable. The unlikely duo set off on their quest until Joan reveals unexpected details about Sydney's final months, forcing Gavin to question not only the purity of his past with Sydney but the course of his own immediate future. Told in the alternating voices of these two irresistible characters, The Reminders is a hilarious and tender exploration of loss, memory, friendship, and renewal.

The Reminders

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Ann Brashares

Georgia

Sisters Alice and Riley reunite with their childhood friend, Paul, at the beach community where they spent summers growing up, but a blossoming romance between Alice and Paul, a serious illness, and a dark family secret force the trio to leave their innoc

The Last Summer (Of You and Me)

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Missouri

Handle With Care

Courtney Sheinmel

"Nobody writes about family secrets with the grace, compassion, and intrigue of Courtney Sheinmel." --Leila Sales, author of This Song Will Save Your Life Fans of I Was Here by Gayle Forman and Far from the Tree by Robin Benway will be floored by this heartbreaking yet uplifting teen novel about a grieving girl who follows a mysterious list across the country after her older sister's death. Sloane Weber is devastated when her older sister dies by suicide. Talley was a bright light who made everyone want to step closer. Why had she made that unthinkable choice? The only clue Talley left behind for Sloane is a puzzle--a list of random places and names, along with the phone number of a boy named Adam, who lives in California and claims he didn't know Talley. Sloane heads west, enlists Adam's help, and together they search for answers. But while Sloane is drawn to Adam, she can't shake the feeling that he's hiding something. Is Sloane ready to learn the truth--about Adam, her sister, or the secrets her family has been hiding for years?

The Survival List

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New York

A powerful suspense story narrated by a young girl who must fend for herself and her little brother after a brutal bear attack While camping with her family on a remote island, five-year-old Anna awakes in the night to the sound of her mother screaming. A rogue black bear, three hundred pounds of fury, is attacking the family's campsite -- and pouncing on her parents as prey. At her dying mother's faint urging, Anna manages to get her brother into the family's canoe and paddle away. But when the canoe runs aground on the edge of the woods, the sister and brother must battle hunger, the elements, and a wilderness alive with danger. Lost and completely alone, they find that their only hope resides in Anna's heartbreaking love for her family, and her struggle to be brave when nothing in her world seems safe anymore. This is a story with a small narrator and a big heart. Cameron gracefully plumbs Anna's young perspective on family, responsibility, and hope, charting both a tragically premature loss of innocence and a startling evolution as Anna reasons through the impossible situations that confront her. Lean and confident, and told in the innocent and honest voice of a five-year-old, THE BEAR is a transporting tale of loss -- but also a poignant and surprisingly funny adventure about love and the raw instincts that enable us to survive.

The Bear

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Margaret Atwood

New Poems

In Dearly, Margaret Atwood's first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and - zombies. Her new poetry is introspective and personal in tone, but wide-ranging in topic. In poem after poem, she casts her unique imagination and unyielding, observant eye over the landscape of a life carefully and intuitively lived. While many are familiar with Margaret Atwood's fiction--including her groundbreaking and bestselling novels The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments, Oryx and Crake, among others--she has, from the beginning of her career, been one of our most significant contemporary poets. And she is one of the very few writers equally accomplished in fiction and poetry. This collection is a stunning achievement that will be appreciated by fans of her novels and poetry readers alike.

Dearly

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California

Ginny Blackstone thought that the biggest adventure of her life was behind her. She spent last summer traveling around Europe, following the tasks her aunt Peg laid out in a series of letters before she died. When someone stole Ginny's backpack—and the last little blue envelope inside—she resigned herself to never knowing how it was supposed to end. Months later, a mysterious boy contacts Ginny from London, saying he's found her bag. Finally, Ginny can finish what she started. But instead of ending her journey, the last letter starts a new adventure—one filled with old friends, new loves, and once-in-a-lifetime experiences. Ginny finds she must hold on to her wits . . . and her heart. This time, there are no instructions.

The Last Little Blue Envelope

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Markus Zusak

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South Carolina

An unforgettable and sweeping family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary bestseller THE BOOK THIEF This is a signed edition with limited copies available. The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world, they discover the moving secret behind their father's disappearance. At the center of the Dunbar family is Clay, a boy who will build a bridge--for his family, for his past, for greatness, for his sins, for a miracle. The question is, how far is Clay willing to go? And how much can he overcome? Written in powerfully inventive language and bursting with heart, BRIDGE OF CLAY is signature Zusak.

Bridge of Clay (Signed Edition)

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Katherine Crowley

Kathi Elster

Alaska

Freeing Yourself from Emotional Traps at Work

This authoritative manual provides valuable insights for turning conflicts inthe workplace into productive working relationships.

Working with You Is Killing Me

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Oklahoma

Thrown together in a high-stakes, televised contest, seven unlikely couples--including two flight attendants, born-again Christians, and two former child stars--participate in a reality show in which they scour the globe in search of love and treasure. By the author of The Dogs of Babel. 175,000 first printing.

Lost and Found

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Ruth C. Stapleton

Texas

The Experiencing Inner Healing

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Clyde M. Narramore

A Counseling Manual

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Problems: 1. Human Problems 2. Addiction 3. Adoption 4. Alcoholism 5. Anorexia Nervosa 6. Anxiety Reaction 7. Aphasia 8. Assurance of Salvation 9. Asthenic Reaction 10. Asthma 11. Brain Damage 12. Central Nervous System Disorders 13. Cerebral Palsy 14. Conversion Reaction 15. Delinquency 16. Depression in Childhood 17. Depressive Reaction 18. Dissociative Reactions 19. Endocrine Dysfunction 20. Enuresis 21. Epilepsy 22. Exhibitionism 23. Giftedness 24. Guilt 25. Headaches 26. Homosexuality 27. Hostility 28. Hypochondriacal Reaction 29. Impotence and Frigidity 30. Incest 31. Inferiority 32. Insecurity 33. Involutional Psychotic Reaction 34. Jealousy 35. Lack of Faith 36. Manic Depressive Reactions 37. Masturbation 39. Menopause 40. Mental Deficiency 41. Monogilism 42. Neurodermatitis 43. Obesity 44. Obsessive Compulsive Reactions 45. Paranoid Reactions 46. Peptic Ulcer 47. Phobic Reaction 48. Pica 49. Postpartum Psychoses 50. Profanity 51. Psychotic Disorders 52. Pyromania 53. Schizophrenia 54. Senility 55. Sexual Deviation 56. Sleep Distrubances 57. Sociopathic Personality 58. Speech Distrubances 59. Stealing 60. Suicide 61. Syphilis 62. Thyroid Disfunction 63. Tics 64. Unfaithfulness in Marriage 65. Unwed Mothers 66. Withdrawal.

Encyclopedia of Psychological Problems

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#hardcover #fiction #emotional #family #newengland #secrets 

Massachusetts

Remembering the December afternoon nearly twenty years earlier when her father and she discovered an abandoned infant in the snow, Nicky recalls her father's efforts to escape society after a painful tragedy, a young woman struggles to live with the consequences of her choices, and a clever detective is determined to promote justice. 300,000 first printing.

Light on Snow

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#hardcover #fiction #historical #drama #emotional #family #mother #son 

Pennsylvania

The Kept

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Anita Shreve

Some shelf wear due to age of book. Small sticker on the back. Otherwise is in good condition.

Juliana Stone

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

"A story of family, first love and forgiveness. I couldn't stop reading. I loved it!"--Miranda Kenneally, author of Catching Jordan

Two shattered hearts are about to collide in this achingly poignant young adult novel. Monroe and Nathan are two lost souls each struggling with grief and guilt from a mistake that changed their lives - looking for acceptance, so they can find forgiveness.

For Monroe Blackwell, one small mistake has torn her family apart--leaving her empty and broken. There's a hole in her heart that nothing can fill. That no one can fill. And a summer in Louisiana with her grandma isn't going to change that...

Nathan Everets knows heartache firsthand when a car accident leaves his best friend in a coma. And it's all his fault. He should be the one lying in the hospital. The one who will never play guitar again. He doesn't deserve forgiveness, and a court-appointed job at the Blackwell B&B isn't going to change that...

There's No Going Back

Captivating and hopeful, this achingly poignant novel brings together two lost souls struggling with grief and guilt--looking for acceptance, so they can find forgiveness.

Boys Like You

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New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline breaks new ground and delivers the story of a soldier who discovers what it means to be a man, a father, and ultimately, a hero. When Dr. Mike Scanlon is called to serve as an army doctor in Afghanistan, he's acutely aware of the dangers he'll face and the hardships it will cause his wife Chloe and newborn baby. And deep inside, he doesn't think of himself as a warrior, but a healer. However, in an ironic turn of events, as Mike operates on a wounded soldier in a war-torn country, Chloe dies in their kitchen, a victim of an apparent household accident. Devastated, Mike returns home to bury her, only to discover that the life he left behind has fallen apart. His medical practice is in jeopardy, and he is a complete stranger to the only family he has left: his precious baby girl. Worse, he learns a shocking secret that sends him into a downward spiral. As layer upon layer of lies are revealed, Mike soon realizes that the most important battle of his life faces him on the home front, and he'll have to put it all on the line to save what's dearest to him. Gripping, thrilling, and profoundly emotional, Don't Go is Lisa Scottoline at her finest.

Don't Go

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This is Where it Ends, Hate List, and Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock readers will appreciate this heartbreaking novel about living with your worst mistake, from New York Times bestselling author Barry Lyga.

Sebastian Cody did something horrible, something no one--not even Sebastian himself--can forgive. At the age of four, he accidentally shot and killed his infant sister with his father's gun.

Now, ten years later, Sebastian has lived with the guilt and horror for his entire life. With his best friend away for the summer, Sebastian has only a new friend, Aneesa, to distract him from his darkest thoughts. But even this relationship cannot blunt the pain of his past. Because Sebastian knows exactly how to rectify his childhood crime and sanctify his past. It took a gun to get him into this.

Now he needs a gun to get out.

Unflinching and honest, Bang is the story of one boy and one moment in time that cannot be reclaimed, as true and as relevant as tomorrow's headlines. "Fans of 13 Reasons Why will find a lot to like in Lyga's latest." -- Entertainment Weekly

Bang

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This was an old library copy, so there’s some taped up parts. The front cover had a sticker on it which was ripped off… it’s in fine, readable shape though! See photos for all up close details #hardcover #nonfiction #emotional #thebrighthour

Colorado

A Memoir of Living and Dying

"Built on her wildly popular Modern Love column, 'When a Couch is More Than a Couch' (9/23/2016), a breathtaking memoir of living meaningfully with 'death in the room' by the 38 year old great-great-great granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, mother to two young boys, wife of 16 years, after her terminal cancer diagnosis"--

The Bright Hour

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#paperback #fiction #historicalfiction #basedonatruestory #courage #heartbreaking #uplifting #emotional #motherhood 

North Dakota

Based on the true story behind a landmark U.S. Supreme Court Decision, K.D. Alden's debut is a rich and moving story of one woman's courage and determination to get her child back when all odds are stacked against her.

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