Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

The Extraordinary Ways Ordinary People Express the Heart's Finest Emotion

What They Did for Love is a literary collection of the extraordinary ways people express the heart's finest emotion.

A powerful collection of stories that is at once heart-warming and heart-wrenching as writers offer stories of love in its many forms set against the challenges of modern life.

Over the years Reader's Digest has published stories of couples, families, friends, and even strangers that touch the heartstrings and show ordinary people reaching out and reaching deep within in the name of love. In "To Mend Her Husband's Heart," you'll meet a woman so desperate to keep her husband of thirty-eight years alive, she researches medical literature and finds an experimental gene therapy that just may save his life.

In an excerpt from "Rewrites," Neil Simon tells the heart-wrenching story of his first wife's battle with cancer and how, when he felt helpless to save her, he bought her the dream house by a lake they had imagined they would enjoy together in their twilight years. You'll read inspiring marriage proposals from everyday people, stories of love lost and found, and famous love letters that speak to the incredible and lasting power of true love. You'll meet Joe Hagan in "Red Dad, Blue Son," who puts his love for his father above his closely held political beliefs; and a mom, Lynn Schnurnberger, ("The Power of Tatoos") who goes to great lengths, including getting a tattoo, to stay connected with her teenage daughter.

In "A Bagful of Dimes," best-selling author Anne Lamott explains why she makes her son go to church with her. The power of love and forgiveness in friendship is portrayed in the story of Jacquelyn Mitchard and her lifelong friend who repair a falling out in "Friends Interrupted." The loving bond between human and animal is depicted in the story of Lt. Col. Jay Kopelman ("Semper Fi") who risks his life to save a dog from a warzone. Finally, in "Dear Superman," you'll read letters sent to Christopher Reeve and his family from complete strangers; and in "This Boy's Life," you'll meet a teenage boy, whose generous decision to become an organ donor transforms the lives of scores of strangers. Delve into What They Did for Love and you'll be moved, touched and inspired to follow your heart wherever it leads--around the world or maybe just around the corner.

What They Did for Love

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John J. Eddleston

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Maryland

Famous London Cases

TRUE CRIME. Women have sometimes been seen as less criminally inclined than men. But, as John Eddleston shows, London's history is crowded with cases of women who broke the law. In vivid detail he reconstructs a series of dramatic, often harrowing cases in which women were involved and puts their acts in the context of their times. Taking episodes from the eighteenth century to near the present day, he looks at criminal women of all types, from all walks of life. The work of the London police, the courts and the prisons is an essential element in his study, and each chapter reveals much about how attitudes to crime and punishment have changed over the centuries. Fascinating portraits of these criminal women as individuals emerge from their stories - their cases come to life - as does the London in which they lived.

Criminal Women

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Reader's Digest Select Editions - Volume 6, 2002 - Includes: An Accidental Woman by Barbara Delinsky; 2nd Chance by James Patterson; City of Bones by Michael Connelly; Distant Shores by Kristin Hannah

 Reader's Digest Select Editions (Volume 6, 2002)

Short stories from the Twilight Zone: The Mighty Casey, Escape Clause, Where is Everybody?, The Monsters are Due on Maple Street, Walking Distance, The Whole Truth, The Lonely, Dust, The Midnight Sun, Mr. Dingle the Strong, The Odyssey of Flight 33, The Big Tall Wish, The Rip Van Winkle Caper, and The Shelter.

Massachusetts

From the Twilight Zone

Sandhya Menon

S. K. Ali

Rin Chupeco

Anna-Marie McLemore

Rebecca Roanhorse

Sara Farizan

Jay Coles

Adi Alsaid

Sangu Mandanna

Phoebe North

Karuna Riazi

Pennsylvania

13 Tales of Food and Love

From some of your favorite bestselling and critically acclaimed authors—including Sandhya Menon, Anna-Marie McLemore, and Rin Chupeco—comes a collection of interconnected short stories that explore the intersection of family, culture, and food in the lives of thirteen teens. A shy teenager attempts to express how she really feels through the confections she makes at her family’s pasteleria. A tourist from Montenegro desperately seeks a magic soup dumpling that could cure his fear of death. An aspiring chef realizes that butter and soul are the key ingredients to win a cooking competition that could win him the money to save his mother’s life. Welcome to Hungry Hearts Row, where the answers to most of life’s hard questions are kneaded, rolled, baked. Where a typical greeting is, “Have you had anything to eat?” Where magic and food and love are sometimes one and the same. Told in interconnected short stories, Hungry Hearts explores the many meanings food can take on beyond mere nourishment. It can symbolize love and despair, family and culture, belonging and home.

Hungry Hearts

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Laura Silverman

13 Stories Between Sunset and Sunrise

When everyone else goes to bed, the ones who stay up feel like they're the only people in the world. As the hours tick by deeper into the night, the familiar drops away and the unfamiliar beckons. Adults are asleep, and a hush falls over the hum of daily life. Anything is possible.



It's a time for romance and adventure. For prom night and ghost hunts. It's a time for breaking up, for falling in love - for finding yourself.



Stay up all night with these thirteen short stories from bestselling and award-winning YA authors like Karen McManus, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nina LaCour, and Brandy Colbert, as they take readers deep into these rarely seen, magical hours.



Full contributor list: Brandy Colbert, Kathleen Glasgow, Maurene Goo, Tiffany D. Jackson, Amanda Joy, Nina LaCour, Karen M. McManus, Anna Meriano, Marieke Nijkamp, Laura Silverman, Kayla Whaley, Julian Winters, Francesca Zappia

Up All Night

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A follow-up collection to well-received The Perils of Sherlock Holmes! Award-winning author Loren D. Estleman has curated a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories from some of the finest authors in Sons of Moriarty and More Stories of Sherlock Holmes. This is the first time that these stories appear together in one anthology, including "Sons of Moriarty," a Sherlock Holmes novella, appearing here for the first time. Estleman's last Holmes collection, The Perils of Sherlock Holmes, was authorized by the Estate of Arthur Conan Doyle and was met with rave reviews. It was dubbed "an excellent collection of short stories and essays" by the New York Review of Books, "an entertaining and diverting read" by Bookpleasures.com, and was said to transport readers "to another place and time during the series of short stories that pay homage to the legend that is Sherlock Holmes" on the Pop Culture Guy Blog.

Sons of Moriarty and More Stories of Sherlock Holmes

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Robin Upward

Short stories from writers such as Mark Twain and Lewis Carroll as well as the 19 gorgeous, full-color, full-page photographs, make this the perfect must-have book for cat lovers.

￼Hardcover book in like new condition, with the exception of the jacket cover, which has a ripple across the top and bottom of the front, as well as a small tear in the upper right hand front corner. ￼

Cat Tales

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Stephen Jones

Florida

Tales of the Walking Dead

The Monster Book of Zombies

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#hardcover #fiction #anthology #feminism #historicalfiction #shortstories #ya #youngadult 

Ohio

15 Stories of Belles, Bank Robbers, and Other Badass Girls

From an impressive sisterhood of YA writers comes an edge-of-your-seat anthology of historical fiction and fantasy featuring a diverse array of daring heroines. Crisscross America — on dogsleds and ships, stagecoaches and trains — from pirate ships off the coast of the Carolinas to the peace, love, and protests of 1960s Chicago. Join fifteen of today’s most talented writers of young adult literature on a thrill ride through history with American girls charting their own course. They are monsters and mediums, bodyguards and barkeeps, screenwriters and schoolteachers, heiresses and hobos. They're making their own way in often-hostile lands, using every weapon in their arsenals, facing down murderers and marriage proposals. And they all have a story to tell. With stories by: J. Anderson Coats Andrea Cremer Y. S. Lee Katherine Longshore Marie Lu Kekla Magoon Marissa Meyer Saundra Mitchell Beth Revis Caroline Richmond Lindsay Smith Jessica Spotswood Robin Talley Leslye Walton Elizabeth Wein

A Tyranny of Petticoats

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Frank D. McSherry

Charles G. Waugh

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

"51 spine-chilling tales from every state in the Union plus Washington, D.C."--Jacket subtitle.

Treasury of American Horror Stories

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Laura J. Hird

Gordon Legge

James Meek

Alan Warner

Irvine Welsh

Paul Reekie

An Anthology of New Scottish Writing

Six Scottish authors - Irvine Welsh, Gordon Legge, Alan Warner, James Meek, Laura J. Hird and Paul Reekie - contribute novellas to this raw-edged collection.

Children of Albion Rovers

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Lorna Bell

Dwight Flegel

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Uplifting End of Life Stories

Happy Endings

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#hardcover #suspense #fiction #anthology #blockbuster #anthology 

Wisconsin

Offers a collection of 13 football mysteries from top writers in addition to a novella about a college football star who delves into a forty-year old mystery surrounding the disappearance of a star player.

The Mighty Johns and Other Stories

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Glory Edim

Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular book club Well-Read Black Girl, on the importance of recognizing ourselves in literature. "A brilliant collection of essential American reading . . . smart, powerful, and complete."--Min Jin Lee, author of the National Book Award finalist Pachinko Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the rest of their lives--but not everyone regularly sees themselves in the pages of a book. In this timely anthology, Glory Edim brings together original essays by some of our best black women writers to shine a light on how important it is that we all--regardless of gender, race, religion, or ability--have the opportunity to find ourselves in literature. Contributors include Jesmyn Ward (Sing, Unburied, Sing), Lynn Nottage (Sweat), Jacqueline Woodson (Another Brooklyn), Gabourey Sidibe (This Is Just My Face), Morgan Jerkins (This Will Be My Undoing), Tayari Jones (An American Marriage), Rebecca Walker (Black, White and Jewish), and Barbara Smith (Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology) Whether it's learning about the complexities of femalehood from Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison, finding a new type of love in The Color Purple, or using mythology to craft an alternative black future, the subjects of each essay remind us why we turn to books in times of both struggle and relaxation. As she has done with her book club-turned-online community Well-Read Black Girl, in this anthology Glory Edim has created a space in which black women's writing and knowledge and life experiences are lifted up, to be shared with all readers who value the power of a story to help us understand the world and ourselves. Advance praise for Well-Read Black Girl "This book is a star chart, a map readers can use to navigate the world via the minds of brilliant black women writers. The essays extol us all to regard--and to celebrate--the written word anew."--Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner House "An eloquently provocative anthology . . . Candid and thoughtful from start to finish, [Glory] Edim's collection amply celebrates the many paths black women have traveled on the road to self-definition. . . . In each essay, the contributor discusses her relationships to reading, books, and the world, yet each bears the unique experiential imprint of the woman who wrote it."--Kirkus Reviews

Well-Read Black Girl

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Dahlia Adler

South Carolina

Fifteen of Shakespeare's Most Notable Works Reimagined

In That Way Madness Lies, fifteen acclaimed YA writers put their modern spin on William Shakespeare’s celebrated classics! West Side Story. 10 Things I Hate About You. Kiss Me, Kate. Contemporary audiences have always craved reimaginings of Shakespeare’s most beloved works. Now, some of today’s best writers for teens take on the Bard in these 15 whip-smart and original retellings! Contributors include Dahlia Adler (reimagining The Merchant of Venice), Kayla Ancrum (The Taming of the Shrew), Lily Anderson (As You Like It), Melissa Bashardoust (A Winter’s Tale), Patrice Caldwell (Hamlet), A. R. Capetta and Cori McCarthy (Much Ado About Nothing), Brittany Cavallaro (Sonnet 147), Joy McCullough (King Lear), Anna-Marie McLemore (Midsummer Night’s Dream), Samantha Mabry (Macbeth), Tochi Onyebuchi (Coriolanus), Mark Oshiro (Twelfth Night), Lindsay Smith (Julius Caesar), Kiersten White (Romeo and Juliet), and Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka (The Tempest).

That Way Madness Lies

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Advice and Inspiration on Fulfilling Dreams

A collection of true stories offers encouragement to self-starters, whether they are just striking out on their own or already on the way to fulfilling their dreams, sharing personal accounts of those who risk it all to follow their passion through creativity, bravery, and ingenuity.

Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur's Soul

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M. Evelina Galang

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Critiques of Asian American Images

Art, fiction, poetry and essays critiquing Asian and Asian American images in media, government, and popular culture.

Screaming Monkeys

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#paperback #fiction #anthology #romance #heroines #family 

Compassion Can't Wait; Someplace Like Home; What the Heart Wants

Each and every one of us has the ability to effect change--to make our world a better place. The dedicated women selected as this year's recipients of Harlequin's More Than Words award have changed lives, one good deed at a time. To celebrate their accomplishments, some of our bestselling authors have honored the winners by writing stories inspired by these real-life heroines.

We hope More Than Words inspires you to get in touch with the real-life heroine living inside of you.

In Carly Phillips's Compassion Can't Wait, two high school sweet hearts are reunited years later, as if by fate, and discover that if you believe in yourself and each other, anything is possible.

Donna Hill's Someplace Like Home tells the story of how one woman's dream becomes reality, as three special people learn that it's never too late to form a loving family.

In Jill Shalvis's What the Heart Wants, an honorable man must learn to forgive himself to regain the trust of the ded icated teacher who is the love of his life.



More Than Words

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Elaine Koster

Virginia

Celebrating Fifty Years of Signet Authors

Stories by leading writers. Joy Fielding's Mother's Day, contrasts a woman's happy relationship with her mother and the unhappy one with her daughter, while in Lisa Alther's Stormy Weather a woman secretly listens to two former lovers discussing her.

The Best of the Best

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Maggie Testa

Daphne Pendergrass

Illinois

Daniel plays ball: When Daniel Tiger and his friends decide to play a game of animal ball at the park, Daniel has a hard time catching the ball.Daniel plays at school: Daniel Tiger and Miss Elaina learn to compromise when they want to do different things while playing together.Daniel gets scared: When Daniel Tiger and his friend O the Owl get scared during a thunderstorm, Daniel's mom shows them how to overcome their fear.Daniel feels left out: When Daniel Tiger sees his friends playing together without him, he feels left out, but talking about his feelings with his dad makes him feel better.

The Adventures of Daniel Tiger

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27 Writers Reveal the Hidden Pleasures and Perils of Being a Grandmother





With A New Epilogue by editor Barbara Graham

In this groundbreaking collection, twenty-seven smart, gutsy writers explode the clichés and tell the real stories about what it's like to be a grandmother in today's world. Among the contributors:

 * Judith Viorst exposes the high-stakes competition for Most Adored Nana.
 * Anne Roiphe learns to keep her mouth shut and her opinions to herself.
 * Elizabeth Berg marvels at witnessing her child give birth to her child.
 * Judith Guest confesses her failed attempt to be the perfect grandmother.
 * Jill Nelson grapples with unforeseen mother-daughter tensions.
 * Ellen Gilchrist reveals how grandparenthood has eased her fear of death.
 * Beverly Donofrio makes amends for her shortcomings as a teenage mother.
 * Bharati Mukherjee transcends her Hindu upbringing to embrace her adopted Chinese granddaughters.
 * Mary Pipher deconstructs the role of grandmother in our changing world.

Eye of My Heart

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Jeffery Deaver

Linda Barnes

Brett Battles

Kentucky

A Serial Thriller

Watchlist is a unique collaboration by twenty-one of the world¿s greatest thriller writers including Lee Child, Joseph Finder, David Hewson, S.J. Rozan, Lisa Scottoline, and Jeffery Deaver, who conceived the characters and set the plot in motion; In turn, the other authors each wrote a chapter and Deaver then completed what he started, bringing each novel to its startling conclusion.

The Chopin Manuscript

Former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton possesses a previously unknown score by Frédéric Chopin. But he is unaware that, locked within its handwritten notes, lies a secret that now threatens the lives of thousands of Americans.

The Copper Bracelet

Harold Middleton returns in this explosive sequel toThe Chopin Manuscript as he¿s drawn into an international terror plot that threatens to send India and Pakistan into full-scale nuclear war.

Watchlist

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Alice Munro

In these three linked stories, “Chance,” “Soon,” and “Silence”—which, together, inspired Pedro Almodóvar’s film Julieta—her virtuosic talents are once again on display. The stories follow a schoolteacher named Juliet as she is swept up by fate: meeting an older man on a train and starting an affair; later, visiting her parents as a young mother; and later still, searching for contact with her estranged daughter. As with all of Munro’s characters, Juliet radiates warmth, dignity, and hope, even as she is unflinching in the face of betrayal and loss. In Munro’s hands, her journey is as surprising, extraordinary, and precious as life itself.

Three Stories That Inspired the Movie

The Three Stories that Inspired the Movie
With a foreword by Pedro Almodóvar

Alice Munro is cherished for her exquisite, affecting meditations on the human heart. In these three linked stories, "Chance," "Soon," and "Silence"--which, together, inspired Pedro Almodóvar's film Julieta--her virtuosic talents are once again on display. The stories follow a schoolteacher named Juliet as she is swept up by fate: meeting an older man on a train and starting an affair; later, visiting her parents as a young mother; and later still, searching for contact with her estranged daughter. As with all of Munro's characters, Juliet radiates warmth, dignity, and hope, even as she is unflinching in the face of betrayal and loss. In Munro's hands, her journey is as surprising, extraordinary, and precious as life itself.

Julieta (Movie Tie-In Edition)

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