Anna Quindlen

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Wisconsin

A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Captures the angst and anxiety of modern life with . . . astute observations about interactions between the haves and have-nots, and the realities of life among the long-married.”—USA Today A provocative novel that explores what it means to be a mother, a wife, and a woman at a moment of reckoning, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Miller’s Valley and Still Life with Bread Crumbs. Some days Nora Nolan thinks that she and her husband, Charlie, lead a charmed life—except when there’s a crisis at work, a leak in the roof at home, or a problem with their twins at college. And why not? New York City was once Nora’s dream destination, and her clannish dead-end block has become a safe harbor, a tranquil village amid the urban craziness. The owners watch one another’s children grow up. They use the same handyman. They trade gossip and gripes, and they maneuver for the ultimate status symbol: a spot in the block’s small parking lot. Then one morning, Nora returns from her run to discover that a terrible incident has shaken the neighborhood, and the enviable dead-end block turns into a potent symbol of a divided city. The fault lines begin to open: on the block, at Nora’s job, and especially in her marriage. Praise for Alternate Side “[Anna] Quindlen’s quietly precise evaluation of intertwined lives evinces a keen understanding of and appreciation for universal human frailties.”—Booklist (starred review) “Exquisitely rendered . . . [Quindlen] is one of our most astute chroniclers of modern life. . . . [Alternate Side] has an almost documentary feel, a verisimilitude that’s awfully hard to achieve.”—The New York Times Book Review “An exceptional depiction of complex characters—particularly their weaknesses and uncertainties—and the intricacies of close relationships . . . Quindlen’s provocative novel is a New York City drama of fractured marriages and uncomfortable class distinctions.”—Publishers Weekly

Alternate Side

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Alaska

A Memoir

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
San Francisco Chronicle * Newsweek/The Daily Beast * The Seattle Times * The Economist * Kansas City Star * BookPage

On February 14, 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being "against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran."
 
So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. He was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. He thought of writers he loved and combinations of their names; then it came to him: Conrad and Chekhov--Joseph Anton.
 
How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for more than nine years? How does he go on working? How does he fall in and out of love? How does despair shape his thoughts and actions, how and why does he stumble, how does he learn to fight back? In this remarkable memoir Rushdie tells that story for the first time; the story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech. He talks about the sometimes grim, sometimes comic realities of living with armed policemen, and of the close bonds he formed with his protectors; of his struggle for support and understanding from governments, intelligence chiefs, publishers, journalists, and fellow writers; and of how he regained his freedom.
 
It is a book of exceptional frankness and honesty, compelling, provocative, moving, and of vital importance. Because what happened to Salman Rushdie was the first act of a drama that is still unfolding somewhere in the world every day.

Praise for Joseph Anton
 
"A harrowing, deeply felt and revealing document: an autobiographical mirror of the big, philosophical preoccupations that have animated Mr. Rushdie's work throughout his career."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
 
"A splendid book, the finest . . . memoir to cross my desk in many a year."--Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
 
"Thoughtful and astute . . . an important book."--USA Today
 
"Compelling, affecting . . . demonstrates Mr. Rushdie's ability as a stylist and storytelle. . . . [He] reacted with great bravery and even heroism."--The Wall Street Journal
 
"Gripping, moving and entertaining . . . nothing like it has ever been written."--The Independent (UK)
 
"A thriller, an epic, a political essay, a love story, an ode to liberty."--Le Point (France)
 
"Action-packed . . . in a literary class by itself . . . Like Isherwood, Rushdie's eye is a camera lens --firmly placed in one perspective and never out of focus."--Los Angeles Review of Books
 
"Unflinchingly honest . . . an engrossing, exciting, revealing and often shocking book."--de Volkskrant (The Netherlands)
 
"One of the best memoirs you may ever read."--DNA (India)
 
"Extraordinary . . . Joseph Anton beautifully modulates between . . . moments of accidental hilarity, and the higher purpose Rushdie saw in opposing--at all costs--any curtailment on a writer's freedom."--The Boston Globe

Joseph Anton

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

Seeking refuge from the police during the last days of Franco's rule, Minaya moves into his uncle's country estate and stumbles upon a dark secrets involving an old poet, his uncle, and the death of the woman they both had loved.

A Manuscript of Ashes

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Florida

Oklahoma

Beloved inspirational author Richard Paul Evans crafts a heartwarming Christmas story in the tradition of The Christmas Box and Finding Noel. Simon & Schuster

The Gift

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Connecticut

Maja Lunde

New York

"In the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this ... literary debut follows three generations of beekeepers from the past, present, and future, weaving a ... story of their relationship to the bees--and to their children and one another--against the backdrop of an urgent, global crisis"--

The History of Bees

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Peter Kageyama

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Alabama

Creating Emotionally Engaging Places

Following the widespread success of For the Love of Cities, this book builds upon the central premise that love of place matters, with more examples from all over the world and practical steps that community leaders, both official and unofficial, might use to kick start the process in their city. This book explores how to build networks of co-creators, how to allay community fears, how to deal with naysayers and bad news, how to find your authentic identity and how little bits of funding can be instrumental in creating big changes.

Love Where You Live

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#hardcover #protectivecover #formerlibrarybook #moving #heartrending #hopeful #romance

Diane came back from Ireland a year ago. Since then, she has turned the page on her stormy relationship with Edward, the brooding Irish photographer, and is now determined to rebuild her life in Paris. With help from her best friend Félix, she focuses solely on getting her literary café back on track. But there, at the café, she meets Olivier. He is kind and thoughtful, and she may have a future with him…until she stumbles across her former love at a photography exhibit. What is he doing in Paris? Why didn't he let her know? Faced with a hail of questions, Edward remains cold and unresponsive. Apparently, he, too, has moved on. But has he? in order to put the past behind her once and for all, Diane must go back over her tracks. Ireland saved her before. Can she get answers there and find peace again?

Don't Worry, Life Is Easy

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Meg Medina

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Ohio

The 2020 Jumpstart Read for the Record Selection (2.24 million readers) * An American Library Association Notable Children's Book * A Publisher's Weekly Best Children's Book of the Year * A Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of the Year * A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
 
From Newbery Medalist and New York Times best-selling author Meg Medina comes the bittersweet story of two girls who will always be each other's número uno, even though one is moving away.

A big truck with its mouth wide open is parked at the curb, ready to gobble up Evelyn's mirror with the stickers around the edge . . . and the sofa that we bounce on to get to the moon.

Evelyn Del Rey is Daniela's best friend. They do everything together and even live in twin apartments across the street from each other: Daniela with her mami and hamster, and Evelyn with her mami, papi, and cat. But not after today--not after Evelyn moves away. Until then, the girls play amid the moving boxes until it's time to say goodbye, making promises to keep in touch, because they know that their friendship will always be special. The tenderness of Meg Medina's beautifully written story about friendship and change is balanced by Sonia Sánchez's colorful and vibrant depictions of the girls' urban neighborhood.

Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away

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Susan Mallery, the bestselling author of Daughters of the Bride, delivers a captivating new novel about the problem with secrets, the power of love and the unbreakable bond between sisters. Watch for The Secrets of the Tulip Sisters, coming soon!

The Secrets of the Tulip Sisters

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Geneen Roth

An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

The bestselling author of "When Food Is Love" helps overeaters find the underlying reasons for using food as an emotional buffer. Roth also provides seven basic guidelines for eating and other therapeutic self-help tools.

Women, Food, and God

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#hardcover #fiction #historicalfiction #moving #newengland

Virginia

Based loosely on a true story of a historic community, this novel is set on Cape Ann in the early 1800s. Peopled with widows, orphans, spinsters, scoundrels, free Africans, and "witches," it resurrects a forgotten sector of society.

The Last Days of Dogtown

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#hardcover #fiction #adultfiction #moving 

North Carolina

Pittacus Lore

Maryland

We may be walking past you right now. We are watching as you read this. We may be in your city, your town. We are living anonymously. We are waiting for the day when We will find each other. We will make our last stand together—if We win, We are saved, and You are saved as well. If we lose, all is lost.

I Am Number Four Movie Tie-In Edition

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Norman Crampton

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Nationwide Guide to the Best in Small-Town Living - from Culpeper, Virginia, to Elko, Nevada, to Red Wing, Minnesota!

"A nationwide guide to the best in small-town living"--Cover subtitle.

The One Hundred Best Small Towns in America

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Eve Bunting

Selling most of her personal possessions when her family is forced to move from their house into a small city apartment, Callie struggles while watching other people buy her things but eventually realizes that a home isn't about what you have, but whom you hold close.

Yard Sale

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New Jersey

#fiction #paperback #funny #moving #feelgood #tween 

Georgia

The Doughnut Fix

Inside front cover piece had a piece cut off of it (see photo); otherwise book in excellent condition. #hardcover #fiction #apieceoftheworld #transportive #moving #graceful #powerful #tender #tragic #bestseller

"A Piece of the World is a graceful, moving and powerful demonstration of what can happen when a fearless literary imagination combines with an inexhaustible curiosity about the past and the human heart: a feat of time travel, a bravura improvisation on the theme of art history, a wonderful story that seems to have been waiting, all this time, for Christina Baker Kline to come along and tell it.” --Michael Chabon, New York Times bestselling author of Moonglow From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth’s mysterious and iconic painting Christina’s World. "Later he told me that he’d been afraid to show me the painting. He thought I wouldn’t like the way he portrayed me: dragging myself across the field, fingers clutching dirt, my legs twisted behind. The arid moonscape of wheatgrass and timothy. That dilapidated house in the distance, looming up like a secret that won’t stay hidden." To Christina Olson, the entire world was her family’s remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations, and increasingly incapacitated by illness, Christina seemed destined for a small life. Instead, for more than twenty years, she was host and inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth, and became the subject of one of the best known American paintings of the twentieth century. As she did in her beloved smash bestseller Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline interweaves fact and fiction in a powerful novel that illuminates a little-known part of America’s history. Bringing into focus the flesh-and-blood woman behind the portrait, she vividly imagines the life of a woman with a complicated relationship to her family and her past, and a special bond with one of our greatest modern artists. Told in evocative and lucid prose, A Piece of the World is a story about the burdens and blessings of family history, and how artist and muse can come together to forge a new and timeless legacy.

                Piece of the World

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Utah

Now a major motion picture starring Jude Dench, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel, Tom Wilkinson, and Maggie Smith. When Ravi Kapoor, an overworked London doctor, reaches the breaking point with his difficult father-in-law, he asks his wife: “Can’t we just send him away somewhere? Somewhere far, far away.” His prayer is seemingly answered when Ravi’s entrepreneurial cousin sets up a retirement home in India, hoping to re-create in Bangalore an elegant lost corner of England. Several retirees are enticed by the promise of indulgent living at a bargain price, but upon arriving, they are dismayed to find that restoration of the once sophisiticated hotel has stalled, and that such amenities as water and electricity are . . . infrequent. But what their new life lacks in luxury, they come to find, it’s plentiful in adventure, stunning beauty, and unexpected love.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

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#paperback #beginnerreader #moving #newplaces #youth #kids #scholastic 

Michigan

A boy has just moved from his old home into a new one. He meets new people and sees new things.

We Just Moved!

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Oates’s finest, a book about the ways of the heart and the compelling ties of love. A major achievement.

Missouri

We Were The Mulvaneys

Perfect summer reading book. #divorced #newlife #selfawareness #moving #hope #newhome #Wisconsin #summer 

In this moving, witty novel, author Maureen Leurck explores the intricacies and joys of renovation and rediscovery-as one woman?s improvement project promises to transform much more than a home . . .

People keep a house alive, not the other way around. Alex Proctor has seen the truth of this in every empty, rundown property she?s bought and renovated since her divorce almost three years ago. She?s also experienced the thrill of making each one into a home. Her newest project is a dilapidated, century-old house just a few blocks from Geneva Lake, Wisconsin. Time and neglect, along with rats and raccoons, have ravaged it inside and out. Only Alex can see the beauty of what it once was and might become again. In just a few weeks-by the time the cicadas make their scheduled reappearance after seventeen years underground-the house should be ready to sell. In the meantime, there are construction disasters, and surprises, to contend with. Amid overgrown grounds and rooms brimming with debris, Alex finds treasures-pocket doors, hardwood floors hidden beneath layers of linoleum and grime-and carved initials that reveal a long-ago love story involving Alex?s elderly neighbor, Elsie, and another cicada summer. At the same time, Alex finds herself searching for a way to reconcile her new life with lingering feelings for her ex-husband. For so long she felt sure that moving on was the only option, but maybe this house, and everything she?s learning in it, could give Alex room for a second chance . . .

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Anna Quindlen

Alternate Side

Salman Rushdie

Joseph Anton

Antonio Muñoz Molina; Edith Grossman (Translator)

A Manuscript of Ashes

Anna Quindlen

Alternate Side

Richard Evans

The Gift

Anna Quindlen

Alternate Side

Maja Lunde

The History of Bees

Peter Kageyama

Love Where You Live

Agnès Martin-Lugand; Agnès Martin-Lugand

Don't Worry, Life Is Easy

Meg Medina

Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away

Susan Mallery

The Secrets of the Tulip Sisters

Geneen Roth

Women, Food, and God

Anita Diamant

The Last Days of Dogtown

Anna Quindlen

Alternate Side

Pittacus Lore

I Am Number Four Movie Tie-In Edition

Norman Crampton

The One Hundred Best Small Towns in America

Eve Bunting

Yard Sale

Anna Quindlen

Alternate Side

Jessie Janowitz

The Doughnut Fix

Christina Baker Kline

Piece of the World

Deborah Moggach

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Stephen Krensky; Larry Di Fiori (Illustrator)

We Just Moved!

Joyce Carol Oates

We Were The Mulvaneys

M. Leurck

Cicada Summer