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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Ohio

A Novel

Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s Chicago jazz scene, a highly ambitious and stylish literary debut that combines the atmosphere and period detail of Amor Towles' Rules of Civility with the emotional depth and drama of The Memory Keeper's Daughter, about a talented but troubled singer, her precocious ten-year-old daughter, and their heartbreaking relationship.

It is the early 1960s, and Chicago is a city of uneasy tensions--segregation, sexual experimentation, free love, the Cold War--but it is also home to one of the country's most vibrant jazz scenes. Naomi Hill, a singer at the Blue Angel club, has been poised on the brink of stardom for nearly ten years. Finally, her big break arrives--the cover of Look magazine. But success has come at enormous personal cost. Beautiful and magnetic, Naomi is a fiercely ambitious yet extremely self-destructive woman whose charms are irresistible and dangerous for those around her. No one knows this better than Sophia, her clever ten-year-old daughter.

For Sophia, Naomi is the center of her universe. As the only child of a single, unconventional mother, growing up in an adult world, Sophia has seen things beyond her years and her understanding. Unsettled by her uncertain home life, she harbors the terrible fear that the world could end at any moment, and compulsively keeps a running list of practical objects she will need to reinvent once nuclear catastrophe strikes. Her one constant is Jim, the photographer who is her best friend, surrogate father, and protector. But Jim is deeply in love with Naomi--a situation that adds to Sophia's anxiety.

Told from the alternating perspectives of Sophia and Naomi, their powerful and wrenching story unfolds in layers, revealing Sophia's struggle for her mother's love with Naomi's desperate journey to stardom and the colorful cadre of close friends who shaped her along the way.

Sophisticated yet poignant, Last Night at the Blue Angel is an unforgettable tale about what happens when our passion for the life we want is at sharp odds with the life we have. It is a story ripe with surprising twists and revelations, and an ending that is bound to break your heart.

Last Night at the Blue Angel

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Rachael Lippincott

Mikki Daughtry

Tobias Iaconis

Iowa

Now a major motion picture starring Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson! Goodreads Choice Winner, Best Young Adult Fiction of 2019 In this #1 New York Times bestselling novel that’s perfect for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, two teens fall in love with just one minor complication—they can’t get within a few feet of each other without risking their lives. Can you love someone you can never touch? Stella Grant likes to be in control—even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Six feet apart. No exceptions. The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital. He couldn’t care less about his treatments, or a fancy new clinical drug trial. Soon, he’ll turn eighteen and then he’ll be able to unplug all these machines and actually go see the world, not just its hospitals. Will’s exactly what Stella needs to stay away from. If he so much as breathes on Stella she could lose her spot on the transplant list. Either one of them could die. The only way to stay alive is to stay apart. But suddenly six feet doesn’t feel like safety. It feels like punishment. What if they could steal back just a little bit of the space their broken lungs have stolen from them? Would five feet apart really be so dangerous if it stops their hearts from breaking too?

Five Feet Apart

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Anna Quindlen

Late one night, a teenage couple drives up to the big white clapboard home on the Blessing estate and leaves a box. In that instant, the lives of those who live and work there are changed forever. Skip Cuddy, the caretaker, finds a baby girl asleep in that box and decides he wants to keep the child . . . while Lydia Blessing, the matriarch of the estate, for her own reasons, agrees to help him. Blessings explores how the secrets of the past affect decisions and lives in the present; what makes a person or a life legitimate or illegitimate and who decides; and the unique resources people find in themselves and in a community. This is a powerful novel of love, redemption, and personal change by the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer about whom The Washington Post Book World said, “Quindlen knows that all the things we ever will be can be found in some forgotten fragment of family.”

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Arkansas

When a teenage couple abandons their baby at the gate of the estate owned by Lydia Blessing, Skip Cuddy, the estate caretaker, decides to raise the child himself, a decision that has a profound effect on the lives of everyone in the community, in a story of love, secrets, and redemption by the author of Black and Blue. 250,000 first printing.

Blessings

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Delaware

A Dogs Promise 

Baker Publishing Group

Texas

Reflections on God's Gift of Love, Hope, and Happiness

Wisdom and inspiration from the Psalms come to life anew in this collection of more than 170 meditations. Each two-page spread presents a devotional thought and encouraging Scriptures. The unique crafting and blending of words and illustrations ensures appeal to Christians young and old. Ideal for year-round gift-giving--including Mother's Day, Father's Day, and graduations.

Moments of Peace in the Presence of God

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Randy Pausch

Jeffrey Zaslow

Massachusetts

The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

The Last Lecture

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Thich Nhat Hanh

A Practice for Awakening the Heart

First offers readers the technique of conscious breathing as a method for synchronizing the mind and body to establish the conditions of love, then explains a mantra practice for generating love that consists of four key statements or intentions in our relationships that will also heal our own pain, fear, and negativity.

True Love

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Debbie Macomber

"An unbreakable bond is formed among the knitters in this poignant story of real women with real problems becoming real friends." --Booklist

 

A place of welcome and warmth, of friends old and new. Watch three women discover how knitting can change their lives in this beloved Blossom Street novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber.



Lydia Hoffman owns a knitting shop on Seattle's Blossom Street. In the year since it opened, A Good Yarn has thrived--and so has Lydia. A lot of that is due to Brad Goetz. But when Brad's ex-wife reappears, Lydia is suddenly afraid to trust her newfound happiness.



Three women join Lydia's newest class. Elise Beaumont, retired and bitterly divorced, learns that her onetime husband is reentering her life. Bethanne Hamlin is facing the fallout from a much more recent divorce. And Courtney Pulanski is a depressed teenager, whose grandmother's idea of helping her is to drag her to seniors' swim sessions--and to the knitting class at A Good Yarn.



The shop is a place of welcome and warmth, of friends old and new. Watch three women discover how knitting can change their lives.



Previously published.

 

A Good Yarn

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Amy Tan

Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life, and two children's

Kwan, a seventeen-year-old half-sister from China, turns young Olivia's world upside-down with her stories of ghosts of another time, tales that have a profound impact on Olivia's life and imagination, until she discovers a way to reconcile the ghosts ofthe past with her dreams of the future

The Hundred Secret Senses

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Virginia

Three Stories about Love, Pain, and What Happens in Between

Heartsick: Three Stories about Love, Loss, and What Happens in Between by Jessie Stephens

Heartsick

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Nicholas Evans

Colorado

A woman must choose between two men, best friends, that both love her, in a poignant story of love, loyalty, honor, and guilt set against the perilous backdrop of wilderness firefighting. By the author of The Horse Whisperer. 500,000 first printing.

The Smoke Jumper

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Michigan

The Cove

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Oregon

The Last Princess

Eva Carter

Illinois

"What does it take to make a hero? Junior doctor Kerry Smith is addicted to rescuing others. Eighteen years ago, on the eve of the millennium, she saved the life of teenage footballer Joel Greenaway who 'died' for eighteen minutes. But life after death doesn't guarantee a happy ending"--

How to Save a Life

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James Patterson

Yellowing. Sticker residue on spine. Flaws posted in pictures. 

Sam's Letters to Jennifer

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Danielle Steel

Inscribed by previous owner on front end paper

New Jersey

In one tragic moment everything changed. Her daughter's life. Her marriage. Her world.

Accident

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Mary Pauline Lowry

Book is in perfect condition except smudges on book sleeve 

Mississippi

Meet Roxy. For fans of Where’d You Go, Bernadette and Bridget Jones’s Diary comes “just the kind of comic novel we need right now” (The Washington Post) about an Austin artist trying to figure out her life one letter to her ex-boyfriend at a time. Bridget Jones penned a diary; Roxy writes letters. Specifically: she writes letters to her hapless, rent-avoidant ex-boyfriend—and current roommate—Everett. This charming and funny twenty-something is under-employed (and under-romanced), and she’s decidedly fed up with the indignities she endures as a deli maid at Whole Foods (the original), and the dismaying speed at which her beloved Austin is becoming corporatized. When a new Lululemon pops up at the intersection of Sixth and Lamar where the old Waterloo Video used to be, Roxy can stay silent no longer. As her letters to Everett become less about overdue rent and more about the state of her life, Roxy realizes she’s ready to be the heroine of her own story. She decides to team up with her two best friends to save Austin—and rescue Roxy’s love life—in whatever way they can. But can this spunky, unforgettable millennial keep Austin weird, avoid arrest, and find romance—and even creative inspiration—in the process?

The Roxy Letters

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New York

A couple destined to be together forever meet an untimely demise and wind up reincarnated as a hardened New York City publisher and a shy Amish woman writer, both of whom feel an uncanny attraction to each other. (This book was previously listed in Forecast.)

Until the End of Time

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Minnesota

Time's Ticking

This is a story about love, loss and betrayal. A first person's account of what happens when all you have ever known is lost and a stranger threatens to ensure it remains lost forever.Meet Aisha Brown, a thirty-year-old wife to Luke, born and bred in Taunton (a rural, English town in the heart of Somerset). Aisha grew up in a loving family and is desperate to have children with her husband. However, she receives devastating news affecting her dreams of motherhood. Emotions running high, a near-fatal car accident occurs with another vehicle and Aisha falls into a coma. When she awakes, the life she knew before the accident no longer exists. Will she believe the doctors and those around her that the life she remembers is purely a fantasy? Or, will she uncover the dark truth behind the accident and fight for what is rightly hers? A thought-provoking thriller that will leave you questioning your own destiny. Which road would you take if you crossed this fateful junction?This is the first book in the Junction Trilogy (Junction: Time's Ticking, Junction: Still Ticking and Junction: Time's Up). Junction: Still Ticking will be released in March 2021 and will be a first person's account from the perspective of the character Zoe Young. Junction: Time's Up will be released in time for Christmas 2021 and will be the final novel in the Junction Trilogy.

Junction

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Robert James Waller

Former library copy with expected markings 

Fall in love with one of the bestselling novels of all time -- the legendary love story that became a beloved film starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep.


If you've ever experienced the one true love of your life, a love that for some reason could never be, you will understand why readers all over the world are so moved by this small, unknown first novel that they became a publishing phenomenon and #1 bestseller. The story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, the farm wife waiting for the fulfillment of a girlhood dream, The Bridges of Madison County gives voice to the longings of men and women everywhere -- and shows us what it is to love and be loved so intensely that life is never the same again.

The Bridges of Madison County

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#paperback #fiction #youngadult #pagetoscreen #thefaultinourstars #ya #tfios #love 

Maryland

Despite the medical miracle that has bought her a few more years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, but when Augustus Waters suddenly appears at the Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be rewritten.

The Fault in Our Stars

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#paperback #fiction #graceburrowes #historicalromance #neveraduke #love #romance 

A proper lady must choose between society or the untitled gentleman who has stolen her heart in this captivating Regency romance perfect for fans of Bridgerton.



Ned Wentworth will be forever grateful to the family that plucked him from the streets and gave him a home, even though polite society still whispers years later about his questionable past. Precisely because of Ned's connections in low places, Lady Rosalind Kinwood approaches him to help her find a lady's maid who has disappeared.



Rosalind is too opinionated--and too intelligent--and has frequently suffered judgment at the hands of polite society. Despite her family's disdain for Ned, Rosalind finds he listens to her and respects her. Then too, his kisses are exquisite. As the investigation of the missing maids becomes more dangerous, both Ned and Rosalind will have to risk everything--including their hearts--if they are to share the happily ever after that Mayfair's matchmakers have begrudged them both.







 

Never a Duke

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Helen Steiner Rice

Retired school library book. Pen marking on the inside cover. Inscribed page. The rest of the pages are in like new condition.

Missouri

Poems of soaring uplift, inspiring faith, spiritual challenge, and down-to-earth directness that speaks to the heart.

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Rebecca Rotert

Last Night at the Blue Angel

Rachael Lippincott; Mikki Daughtry; Tobias Iaconis

Five Feet Apart

Anna Quindlen

Blessings

W. Bruce Cameron

A Dogs Promise

Baker Publishing Group

Moments of Peace in the Presence of God

Randy Pausch; Jeffrey Zaslow

The Last Lecture

Thich Nhat Hanh

True Love

Debbie Macomber

A Good Yarn

Amy Tan

The Hundred Secret Senses

Jessie Stephens

Heartsick

Nicholas Evans

The Smoke Jumper

Ron Rash

The Cove

Cynthia Freeman

The Last Princess

Eva Carter

How to Save a Life

Randy Pausch; Jeffrey Zaslow

The Last Lecture

James Patterson

Sam's Letters to Jennifer

Danielle Steel

Accident

Mary Pauline Lowry

The Roxy Letters

Danielle Steel

Until the End of Time

L. A. Evans

Junction

Robert James Waller

The Bridges of Madison County

John Green

The Fault in Our Stars

Grace Burrowes

Never a Duke

Helen Steiner Rice

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