Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Ohio

My Journey from Cuban Refugee to World-Renowned Record Producer and Songwriter

The Latin Hit Maker is the fascinating story of how a poor refugee kid in Miami rose to the world stage and created some of the greatest music of the 21st century. Rudy Pérez shares his genuine rags-to-riches story filled with inspiration, little-known accounts of working with celebrity artists, and a powerful reminder of God's grace.

The Latin Hit Maker

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Mike Lewis

Sheryl Sandberg

Virginia

If the Job You Have Isn't the Life You Want

"A lively and inspiring guidebook for anyone who wants to make the jump from normal to extraordinary."
--Tony Robbins, #1New York Timesbestselling author ofUnshakeableandMONEY: Master the Game

An inspirational book that lays out the "Jump Curve"--four steps to wholeheartedly pursuing the career of your dreams--through experiences from a variety of people who have jumped and never looked back

When Mike Lewis was twenty-four and working in a prestigious corporate job, he eagerly wanted to leave and pursue his dream of becoming a professional squash player. But he had questions: When is the right time to move from work that is comfortable to a career you have only dared to dream of? How have other people made such a jump? What did they feel when making that jump--and afterward?

Mike sought guidance from others who had "jumped," and the responses he got--from a banker who started a brewery, a publicist who became a Bishop, a garbage collector who became a furniture designer, and on and on--were so clear-eyed and inspiring that Mike wanted to share what he had learned with others who might be helped by those stories. First, though, he started playing squash professionally.

The right book at the right time,When to Jump offers more than forty heartening stories (from the founder of Bonobos, the author ofThe Big Short, the designer of the Lyft logo, the Humans of New York creator, and many more) and takeaways that will inspire, instruct, and reassure, including the ingenious four-phase Jump Curve.

When to Jump

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Fareed Zakaria

Was supposed to read this for a class but never did. In perfect condition!

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Iowa

COVID-19 is speeding up history, but how? What is the shape of the world to come?

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

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Peggy Rowe

Mike Rowe

New York

True Stories of a Horse-Crazy Daughter and Her Baseball-Obsessed Mother: a Memoir

A Message from Mike Rowe, the Dirty Jobs Guy: Just to be clear, About My Mother is a book about my grandmother, written by my mother. That’s not to say it’s not about my mother—it is. In fact, About My Mother is as much about my mother as it is about my grandmother. In that sense, it’s really a book about “mothers.” …It is not, however, a book written by me. True, I did write the foreword. But it doesn’t mean I’ve written a book about my mother. I haven’t. Nor does it mean my mother’s book is about her son. It isn’t. It’s about my grandmother. And my mother. Just to be clear.—Mike A love letter to mothers everywhere, About My Mother will make you laugh and cry—and see yourself in its reflection. Peggy Rowe’s story of growing up as the daughter of Thelma Knobel is filled with warmth and humor. But Thelma could be your mother—there’s a Thelma in everyone’s life. Shes the person taking charge—the one who knows instinctively how things should be. Today Thelma would be described as an alpha personality, but while growing up, her daughter Peggy saw her as a dictator—albeit a benevolent, loving one. They clashed from the beginning—Peggy, the horse-crazy tomboy, and Thelma, the genteel-yet-still-controlling mother, committed to raising two refined, ladylike daughters. Good luck. When major league baseball came to town in the early 1950s and turned sophisticated Thelma into a crazed Baltimore Orioles groupie, nobody was more surprised and embarrassed than Peggy. Life became a series of compromises—Thelma tolerating a daughter who pitched manure and galloped the countryside, while Peggy learned to tolerate the whacky Orioles fan who threw her underwear at the television, shouted insults at umpires, and lived by the orange-and-black schedule taped to the refrigerator door. Sometimes, we’re more alike than we know. And in case you’re wondering, Peggy knows a thing or two about dirty jobs herself…

About My Mother

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North Carolina

Eat What You Love, Get Slim for Life!

Introduces a clinically proven diet plan that offers recipes celebrating carbohydrates while providing a healthy balance of nutrients, resulting in breakthrough weight loss that is both healthy and effective.

The Carb Lovers Diet

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California

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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Florida

Wedding

In A Bridal Blessing, Poltarnees traces a bride from her engagement through the planning for her marriage to the ceremony itself, and out into life to establish a new household and a joint future. He manages to find the essence of each stage, so that brides of all kinds will likely find themselves in this blessing. As in the other books in this series, the illustrations, which are from a variety of sources and many eras, give the words added life and power.

A Bridal Blessing NEW

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Tim Tebow

Nathan Whitaker

Texas

FormerUniversity of Florida star quarterback, 2010 first-round draft pick for theDenver Broncos, and devout Christian Tim Tebow tellsthe story of his faith, his life, and his career in football in Through MyEyes. Written with Nathan Whitaker, the New York Times bestsellingcoauthor of Quiet Strength, with Tony Dungy, Through My Eyes givesfans a first look into the heart of an athlete whose talent and devotion havemade him one of the most provocative figures in football.

Through My Eyes

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Josh Hamilton

Tim Keown

Finding the Strength to Come Back

Josh Hamilton was the first player chosen in the first round of the 1999 baseball draft. He was destined to be one of those rare "high-character " superstars. But in 2001, working his way from the minors to the majors, all of the plans for Josh went off the rails in a moment of weakness. What followed was a 4-year nightmare of drugs and alcohol, estrangement from friends and family, and his eventual suspension from baseball. BEYOND BELIEF details the events that led up to the derailment. Josh explains how a young man destined for fame and wealth could allow his life to be taken over by drugs and alcohol. But it is also the memoir of a spiritual journey that breaks through pain and heartbreak and leads to the rebirth of his major-league career. Josh Hamilton makes no excuses and places no blame on anyone other than himself. He takes responsibility for his poor decisions and believes his story can help millions who battle the same demons. "I have been given a platform to tell my story" he says. "I pray every night I am a good messenger."

Beyond Belief

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A powerful coming-of-age story about a girl whose encounters with loss, broken friendships, and newfound faith leave her forever changed, from Printz Honor winner and Morris Award Finalist Jessie Ann Foley



When Wendy Boychuck's father, a Chicago cop, was escorted from their property in handcuffs, she knew her life would never be the same. Her father gets a years-long jail sentence, her family falls on hard times, and the whispers around their neighborhood are impossible to ignore. If that wasn't bad enough, she gets jumped walking home from a party one night. Wendy quickly realizes that in order to survive her father's reputation, she'll have to make one for herself.

Then Wendy meets Kenzie Quintana--a foul-mouthed, Catholic uniform-skirt-hiking alpha--and she knows immediately that she's found her savior. Kenzie can provide Wendy with the kind of armor a girl needs when she's trying to outrun her father's past. Add two more mean girls to the mix--Sapphire and Emily--and Wendy has found herself in Academy of the Sacred Heart's most feared and revered clique. Makeover complete.

But complete is far from what Wendy feels. Instead, she faces the highs and lows of a toxic friendship, the exhaustion that comes with keeping up appearances, and a shattering loss--the only one that could hurt more than losing herself.

Neighborhood Girls

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Dizzyingly brilliant and raucously funny, GONE WITH THE MIND is the story of Mark Leyner's life, told as only Mark Leyner can. In this utterly unconventional novel, Leyner gives a reading in the food court of a mall. Besides Mark's mother and a few employees of fast food chain Panda Express who ask a handful of questions, the reading is completely without audience. The action of this book takes place exclusively at the food court, but the territory covered on these pages has no bounds.

Existential, self-aware, and very much concerned with the relationship between a complicated mother and an even more complicated son, Leyner's story--with its bold, experimental structure--is a moving work of genius.

Gone with the Mind

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Tennessee

A witty memoir that weaves an authentic coming-of-age tale into a bold portrait of New York's working-class women.

Fifth-generation New Yorker, third-generation bartender, and first-generation author Tara Clancy was raised in three wildly divergent homes: a converted boat shed in working class Queens, a geriatric commune of feisty, Brooklyn-born Italians, and a sprawling Hamptons estate she visited every other weekend. This childhood triptych comes to life in The Clancys of Queens, an electric, one-of-a-kind memoir.   
 
From scheming and gambling with her force-of-nature grandmother, to brawling with eleven-year-old girls on the concrete recess battle yard of MS 172, to hours lounging on Adirondack chairs beside an immaculate croquet lawn, to holding court beside Joey O'Dirt, Goiter Eddy, and Roger the Dodger at her Dad's local bar, Tara leapfrogs across these varied spheres, delivering stories from each world with originality, grit, and outrageous humor.
 
But The Clancys of Queens is not merely an authentic coming-of-age tale or a rowdy barstool biography. Chock-full of characters who escape the popular imaginings of this city, it offers a bold portrait of real people, people whose stories are largely absent from our shelves. Most crucially, it captures--in inimitable prose--the rarely-heard voices of New York's working-class women.
 
With a light touch but a hard hit, The Clancys of Queens blends savvy and wit to take us on an unforgettable strata-hopping adventure.

The Clancys of Queens

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Ben Lindbergh

Sam Miller

Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team

TheNew York Times bestseller about what would happen if two statistics-minded outsiders were allowed to run a professional baseball team

It's the ultimate in fantasy baseball: You get to pick the roster, set the lineup, and decide on strategies -- with real players, in a real ballpark, in a real playoff race. That's what baseball analysts Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller got to do when an independent minor-league team in California, the Sonoma Stompers, offered them the chance to run its baseball operations according to the most advanced statistics. Their story inThe Only Rule is it Has to Workis unlike any other baseball tale you've ever read.

We tag along as Lindbergh and Miller apply their number-crunching insights to all aspects of assembling and running a team, following one cardinal rule for judging each innovation they try:it has to work. We meet colorful figures like general manager Theo Fightmaster and boundary-breakers like the first openly gay player in professional baseball. Even José Canseco makes a cameo appearance.

Will their knowledge of numbers help Lindbergh and Miller bring the Stompers a championship, or will they fall on their faces? Will the team have a competitive advantage or is the sport's folk wisdom true after all? Will the players attract the attention of big-league scouts, or are they on a fast track to oblivion?

It's a wild ride, by turns provocative and absurd, as Lindbergh and Miller tell a story that will speak to numbers geeks and traditionalists alike. And they prove that you don't need a bat or a glove to make a genuine contribution to the game.

The Only Rule Is It Has to Work

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Oklahoma

Big Portions. Big Results. Drop 10 Pounds in 4 Weeks

A diet based on the Hungry Girl philosophy shares the author's signature "super-sizing" techniques combined with guilt-free recipes in a four-week plan that includes tips for staying on target, dining out and making strategic choices at the grocery store.

The Hungry Girl Diet

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Michael L. Tushman

Charles A. O'Reilly

Tushman and O'Reilly examine how leadership, culture, and organizational architectures can be both important facilitators of innovation and, not uncommonly, formidable obstacles. They demonstrate how to clarify today's critical managerial problems, use culture and commitment to promote innovation and implement strategy, and deal with changing innovation requirements as organizations evolve.

A Practical Guide to Leading Organizational Change and Renewal

Winning through Innovation reveals why short-term corporate success often increases the chance of long-term failure. Drawing on lessons from firms worldwide, this book is the first to provide systematic tools that managers can begin using today to gain practical insights for overcoming the success syndrome, managing innovation, and developing action plans to attain-and maintain-industry leadership. Michael L. Tushman is the MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Charles A. O'Reilly III is the Frank E. Buck Professor of Human Resources Management and Organizational Behavior at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Winning Through Innovation

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Chip Gaines

Joanna Gaines

By renovating homes in Waco, Texas, and changing lives in such a winsome and engaging way, Chip and Joanna have become more than just the stars of Fixer Upper, they have become America’s new best friends.

The Magnolia Story

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Arizona

Festive Inspirations for your Best Season Ever!

Holiday Cheer

Previously owned. Bookstore price tag on front jacket cover. 

A collection of photographs, combined with poetry and poetic impressions by such writers as Rainer Maria Rilke, Rachel Carson, John Muir, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, W.B. Yeats, Thornton Wilder, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jules Laforgue, Robert Lowell, Robert Penn Warren, and Aldo Leopold.

Reflections of Madison County

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Colorado

The Cooks Encyclopedia of  One Pot & Clay-pot Cooking

The Cooks Encyclopedia of Cookies, Biscuits & Bars

The Cooks Encyclopedia of Appetizers, Starters & Hors D’Oeuvres

#health #exercise #fitness #hardcover #nonfiction #nutrition #wellness #food #bestseller 

the essential guide to food, diet, and nutrition

Eating well for optimum health

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A Guide to Chefs' Favorite Restaurants

Eat around the world with 650 of the world's best chefs. Wherever you are, youll never miss the best local diner for breakfast, the best restaurant for a business dinner, or the best place for a late night snack - and everything in between.

This all-new, completely revised, third edition of the global restaurant guidebook that has sold more than 250,000 copies features more than 7,000 recommendations for more than 4,500 restaurants in more than 70 countries. Wherever you are, you'll never miss the best local diner for breakfast, the best restaurant for a business dinner, or the best place for a late night snack - and everything in-between.

With city maps, key information, reviews and recommendations from the chefs themselves, this is the guide for savvy restaurant-goers and arm chair foodies in major cities and towns worldwide.

WHERE: With recommendations in more than 70 countries - from the United States to Buenos Aires from Ireland to Estonia from Greece to South Africa, discover the best eateries for your destination.

CHEFS: Find out where and what the world's best chefs eat including: Jason Atherton, Shannon Bennett, Helena Rizzo, Stephen Harris, Yotam Ottolenghi, Yoshihiro Narisawa, and hundreds more.

EAT: From breakfast to late night, bargain to high end - discover the best places to eat for just the right occasion.

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When to Jump

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