Emily Post

Peggy Post

For the past one hundred years, Emily Post has been America’s definitive source for how to navigate—and enhance—every social interaction. In an increasingly diverse and intersectional world, the need for a trusted primer on how to put people at ease and treat others with confidence and kindness has never been greater.

Lizzie Post and Daniel Post Senning—the great-great grandchildren of Emily Post and co-presidents of The Emily Post Institute—provide a fully updated and relatable guide. From advice on entertaining, table manners, and using titles and pronouns, to personal and professional communication etiquette, this stylish and essential reference provides thoughtful guidance on how to do it all well. Rooted in a foundation of consideration, respect, and honesty, this edition continues the Post family legacy of upholding traditions while moving forward with the times. The book covers:

Etiquette classics like table manners, gift-giving, thank-you notes, greetings and introductions, and everyday conversation

How to be a good host and a good guest, from handling invitations and setting yourself up for success to plus-ones and dealing with mishaps

Tech etiquette including video meetings, parties and classes, and how to politely handle devices, home security, and AI

Managing hard times, from what to say (and what not to say), to the tradition of condolence notes and how to offer support following a death, miscarriage, or tragedy

Tipping practices in the age of rideshares, tough times, and ever-prominent payment screens



Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Texas

Indexed

Presents guidelines on etiquette for every social and business situation, including telephone and table manners and wedding etiquette

Emily Post's Etiquette - 16th Edition

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Larry Kreider

Floyd McClung

Name and address sticker on inside cover - some highlights in text

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A New Model for Living Out Your Faith

There’s a new way of doing church and it’s taking North America by storm! Here, a recognized authority on the house church movement and a popular speaker and pastor share their expertise in starting and maintaining a healthy house church. Together they look at current and future trends in the house church movement and provide best practice models for planting and leading house churches. Also, they explore how house churches are not always the same as simple cell-groups or small groups, especially in the areas of leadership and money. Readers will discover all the information they need to begin a house church in their community.

Starting a House Church

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Adele Earnshaw

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

Earnshaw provides guidelines for developing any heartwarming memory into a lovely composition.

Painting the Things You Love in Watercolor

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Beverly S. Smith

Oregon

Instructions are easy to follow and no professional equipment is needed for these mouth-watering morsels. Full-color illustrations.

The Book of Chocolates and Petit Fours

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Illinois

How and Why To Build a Wine Cellar  

Loreen Leedy

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Louisiana

How to Write a Letter

Discusses the different kinds of letters, the parts of a letter, and who can be a potential correspondent, and provides examples.

Messages in the Mailbox #60

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Conn Iggulden

Hal Iggulden

The bestselling book for every boy from eight to eighty, covering essential boyhood skills such as building tree houses*, learning how to fish, finding true north, and even answering the age old question of what the big deal with girls is. In this digital age there is still a place for knots, skimming stones and stories of incredible courage. This book recaptures Sunday afternoons, stimulates curiosity, and makes for great father-son activities. The brothers Conn and Hal have put together a wonderful collection of all things that make being young or young at heart fun—building go-carts and electromagnets, identifying insects and spiders, and flying the world's best paper airplanes. The completely revised American Edition includes: The Greatest Paper Airplane in the World The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World The Five Knots Every Boy Should Know Stickball Slingshots Fossils Building a Treehouse* Making a Bow and Arrow Fishing (revised with US Fish) Timers and Tripwires Baseball's "Most Valuable Players" Famous Battles-Including Lexington and Concord, The Alamo, and Gettysburg Spies-Codes and Ciphers Making a Go-Cart Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary Girls Cloud Formations The States of the U.S. Mountains of the U.S. Navigation The Declaration of Independence Skimming Stones Making a Periscope The Ten Commandments Common US Trees Timeline of American History * For more information on building treehouses, visit www.treehouse-books.com and www.stilesdesigns.com or see "Treehouses You Can Actually Build" by David Stiles

Dangerous Book for Boys

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Andy Stanley

Stuart Hall

Imagine meeting with the parents of your students and showing them the seven principles that serve as the foundation for all you will teach your kids. Imagine having a content calendar that can be used to guide the development of your activity calendar throughout the year. Imagine having a handful of carefully crafted principles to choose from in developing the theme of every camp of retreat. These are just a few of the advantages of adopting the seven-checkpoints strategy. But the greatest advantage is this: You will know that you are doing more than providing exciting activities -- you are changing lives for eternity. A New Strategy for Youth Ministry Andy Stanley and Stuart Hall, both respected and effective leaders in the Christian Community, have developed a ground-breaking, dynamic plan for youth ministry of the coming decades. The Seven Checkpoints for Youth Leaders and the companion The Seven Checkpoints Student Journal presents a plan for a student's entire career in a youth group. The challenges facing our youth grow every year. Quick fixes and short-term programs will not provide the life-strengthening results needed for the teens of today. This revolutionary approach promises and delivers what is needed in the world of youth ministries around the country today. So what are you waiting for? You have a life to build. Open up this book and get the seven.

The Seven Checkpoints for Youth Leaders

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Alabama

A Step-by-Step Visual Directory, with an Inspirational Gallery of Finished Works

A new edition to our Encyclopedia of Art Techniques series, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MOSAIC TECHNIQUES shares the ancient methods for creating decorative artwork with mosaic tiles. This visual directory helps you transform your pottery, furniture, walls, and floors with fabulous creative mosaics. Learn foolproof techniques for getting colors to work together to create dynamic designs. It needn't be expensive: find out how to work with improvised mosaic tiles, such as pebbles, colored glass, and other found materials.

The Encyclopedia of Mosaic Techniques

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New York

This internationally celebrated memoir is now a new Showtime original series.

Belle couldn't find a job after University. Her impressive degree was not paying her rent or buying her food. But after a fantastic threesome with a very rich couple who gave her a ton of money, Belle realized that she could earn more than anyone she knew--by becoming a call girl. The rest is history. Belle became a 20-something London working girl--and had the audacity to write about it--anonymously. The shockingly candid and explicit diary she put on the Internet became a London sensation. She shares her entire journey inside the world of high-priced escorts, including fascinating and explicit insights about her job and her clients, her various boyfriends, and a taboo lifestyle that has to be read to be believed. The witty observations, shocking revelations, and hilarious scenarios deliver like the very best fiction and make for a titillating reading experience unlike any other.

Secret Diary of a Call Girl

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Ken Denmead

The Coolest Experiments and Projects for Science Fairs and Family Fun

Fans of the New York Times bestselling Geek Dad and The Geek Dad's Guide to Weekend Fun will flock to the 3.0 version, The Geek Dad Book for Aspiring Mad Scientists. As Ken Denmead explains, most kids lack an understanding of science and an awareness of how it influences our everyday lives. What kids today need is a fun way to learn scientific concepts. This book will help scientists-in-the- making discover how our world works with creative project ideas, including how to:

 * Grow crystals to power your Stargate and set your room aglow
 * Extract your own DNA and decode your genes
 * Build a MacGyver radio from nothing but cast-off electrical and office supplies
   
   Chock-full of instructional illustrations throughout, The Geek Dad Book for Aspiring Mad Scientists puts the fun back in science.

The Geek Dad Book for Aspiring Mad Scientists

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Don Bollinger

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Laying, Sanding, and Finishing

Using crisp photos and drawings, Bollinger goes step by step through the process. You will learn how to estimate materials, select the right kind of wood, prepare the subfloor and achieve a blemish-free finish for an old or new floor. Bollinger also provides numerous tips and tricks, and sources of supply. The book is indexed for easy reference.

Hardwood Floors

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Michael Shurtleff

Ohio

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

Provides acting students with specific advice on handling various auditioning situations and offers behind-the-scenes stories about the beginning days of such stars as Barbra Streisand, Dustin Hoffman, and Lily Tomlin.

Audition

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#paperback #gardening #garden #howto #nonfiction #flowers #plants #spring #summer #home 

Provides information on how to plant trees, shrubs, bulbs, perennials, and annuals for colorful gardens all year round, including formulas for fertilizers and for combatting a wide variety of plant pests and diseases

Flower Power!

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English

The Humble Argument: An Introduction to Argument and the College Essay

Slightly smaller than a regular hardback book

How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person

The creator of "Grey's Anatomy" and "Scandal" details the one-year experiment with saying "yes" that transformed her life, revealing how accepting unexpected invitations she would have otherwise declined enabled powerful benefits.

Year of Yes

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Brian St. Pierre

Deborah Jones

Book is in really nice condition. No writing, dog ears or tears. Outside page edges clean. Spine intact. Dust jacket has light shelf wear except for top of spine (see photo). Solid copy. 

Choosing, Serving, and Enjoying

Many people are intimidated by wine. In fact, there's nothing more complicated about it than trying the different kinds and seeing what you like. The ultimate test for any wine is purely subjective: Do you like the taste? In this practical and elegant guide to wine, you'll find the key to answering that question with confidence. A Perfect Glass of Wine reveals how truly easy it is to relax and savor the fruit of the vine. All the wines in the world come from just a few varieties of grape, and the grape determines the wine's flavor. Once these categories of flavor are understood, all the rest flows as easily as wine into the glass - how to match wine with food, how to store and serve it, which are the right occasions for a certain type of wine, and even how much of a fuss to make over a bottle and how much to spend on it. Acclaimed wine writer Brian St. Pierre's down-to-earth, humorous approach to the art of drinking wine, full of suggestions and advice - all combined with spectacular photographs and charming illustrations - make this wonderful guide a gift for anyone who wants to learn to understand, appreciate, and, above all, fully enjoy a perfect glass of wine.

A Perfect Glass of Wine

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#hardcover #nonfiction #children #parenting #howto #selfhelp 

Pennsylvania

New Thinking about Children

NurtureShock

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Monte Burch

Build your own outbuildings and enjoy the space to do more of what you love. From simple toolsheds and animal shelters to smokehouses and low-cost barns, Monte Burch guides you through everything you need to know to make your small building projects a reality. Detailed blueprints, easy-to-follow instructions, and expert advice are suited to even the first-time builder. Discover how easy it is to create your own customized spaces that will allow your passions to grow.

Building Small Barns, Sheds and Shelters

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Massachusetts

Le Cordon Blue Home Collection: Muffins

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Instructional book for beginners in oil painting! This is a vintage copy but has been kept in excellent condition. Minor yellowing #art #howto  #pbs #oilpainting

Oil Painting for Beginners 

With this easy-to-follow guide based on his successful TV series, well-known painter Alwyn Crawshaw removes the mystery from oil painting and encourages you to have a go. He gives advice on: choosing your materials; colour mixing; composition; brush strokes; working from photographs; & painting outdoors--Cover.

Crawshaw Paints Oils

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Jordan Ellenberg

New Jersey

The Power of Mathematical Thinking

The Freakonomics of math--a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our hands

The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us how terribly limiting this view is: Math isn't confined to abstract incidents that never occur in real life, but rather touches everything we do--the whole world is shot through with it.

Math allows us to see the hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of our world. It's a science of not being wrong, hammered out by centuries of hard work and argument. Armed with the tools of mathematics, we can see through to the true meaning of information we take for granted: How early should you get to the airport? What does "public opinion" really represent? Why do tall parents have shorter children? Who really won Florida in 2000? And how likely are you, really, to develop cancer?

How Not to Be Wrong presents the surprising revelations behind all of these questions and many more, using the mathematician's method of analyzing life and exposing the hard-won insights of the academic community to the layman--minus the jargon. Ellenberg chases mathematical threads through a vast range of time and space, from the everyday to the cosmic, encountering, among other things, baseball, Reaganomics, daring lottery schemes, Voltaire, the replicability crisis in psychology, Italian Renaissance painting, artificial languages, the development of non-Euclidean geometry, the coming obesity apocalypse, Antonin Scalia's views on crime and punishment, the psychology of slime molds, what Facebook can and can't figure out about you, and the existence of God.

Ellenberg pulls from history as well as from the latest theoretical developments to provide those not trained in math with the knowledge they need. Math, as Ellenberg says, is "an atomic-powered prosthesis that you attach to your common sense, vastly multiplying its reach and strength." With the tools of mathematics in hand, you can understand the world in a deeper, more meaningful way. How Not to Be Wrong will show you how.

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Emily Post; Peggy Post

Emily Post's Etiquette - 16th Edition

Larry Kreider; Floyd McClung

Starting a House Church

Adele Earnshaw

Painting the Things You Love in Watercolor

Beverly S. Smith

The Book of Chocolates and Petit Fours

Richard M. Gold, Ph. D.

How and Why To Build a Wine Cellar

Loreen Leedy

Messages in the Mailbox #60

Conn Iggulden; Hal Iggulden

Dangerous Book for Boys

Andy Stanley; Stuart Hall

The Seven Checkpoints for Youth Leaders

Emma Biggs

The Encyclopedia of Mosaic Techniques

Belle de Jour; Anonymous

Secret Diary of a Call Girl

Ken Denmead

The Geek Dad Book for Aspiring Mad Scientists

Don Bollinger

Hardwood Floors

Michael Shurtleff

Audition

Jerry F. Baker

Flower Power!

Roy K. Humble

The Humble Argument: An Introduction to Argument and the College Essay

Shonda Rhimes

Year of Yes

Brian St. Pierre; Deborah Jones

A Perfect Glass of Wine

Po Bronson; Ashley Merryman

NurtureShock

Ken Denmead

The Geek Dad Book for Aspiring Mad Scientists

Monte Burch

Building Small Barns, Sheds and Shelters

Conn Iggulden; Hal Iggulden

Dangerous Book for Boys

Le Cordon Blue

Le Cordon Blue Home Collection: Muffins

Alwyn Crawshaw

Crawshaw Paints Oils

Jordan Ellenberg

How Not to Be Wrong