William. Goldman

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

Beautiful, flaxen-haired Buttercup has fallen for Westley, the farm boy, and when he departs to make his fortune, she vows never to love another. So when she hears that his ship has been captured by the Dread Pirate Roberts (no survivors) her heart is broken. But her charms draw the attention of the relentless Prince Humperdinck who wants a wife and will go to any lengths to have Buttercup. So starts a fairy tale like no other, of fencing, poison, true love, hate, revenge, giants, bad men, good men, snakes, spiders, chases, escapes, lies, truths, passion and miracles.

The Princess Bride

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Jeffery Deaver

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Missouri

California Bureau of Investigation interrogator and body language expert Kathryn Dance works to recapture a dangerous escaped killer with the help of three victims from his former cult and the lone survivor from a family he slaughtered. By the author of The Bone Collector. 300,000 first printing.

The Sleeping Doll

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Val McDermid

Pennsylvania

In the course of researching her best-selling books, McDermid has become familiar with many branches of forensics, and now she uncovers the history of this science and the people who make sure that for murderers, there is no hiding place. Forensic scientists can unlock the mysteries of the past and help serve justice using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene, or the faintest of human traces. Now available in paperback, "Forensics" goes behind the scenes with some of these top-level professionals and their groundbreaking research, drawing on original interviews and firsthand experience on scene with top forensic scientists. Along the way, we discover how maggots collected from a corpse can help determine time of death; how a DNA trace a millionth the size of a grain of salt can be used to convict a killer; and how a team of young Argentine scientists led by a maverick American anthropologist were able to uncover the victims of a genocide. The journey takes us to war zones, fire scenes, and autopsy suites, reveals both extraordinary bravery and true wickedness, as we trace the history of forensics from its earliest beginnings to the cutting-edge science of the modern day.

Forensics

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Ted Nicholas

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Enterprise Publishing, 1976, 198 pages
This step-by-step guide is written by the foremost self-published author in the country, who has sold over 400,000 copies of his bestseller. The motivating factor behind this book for Ted Nicholas is to guide the novice or established writer to the realization of a published book by learning from his personal experience. Thousands of manuscripts are rejected each year by conventional publishers because writers don't have the resources to use a vanity publisher or don't even know where to begin. Covered within are all the essentials: • How to prepare a manuscript • Choosing the right title and selling price • The printing process and how to reduce costs • How to get free nationwide advertising and publicity • How to copyright your book • How to get your book reviewed • How to prepare your own advertising • How to sell to bookstores and distributors or by mail order • Sample letters and forms included to use as guidelines • EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW



California

How to Self Publish Your Own Book and Make It a Best Seller

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Frank Delaney

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

North Carolina

A Novel

An epic tale-within-a-tale based on the history of Ireland finds a traditional wandering Storyteller revealing his life experiences while forging a poignant new relationship in the home of an eight-year-old boy. A first novel. 50,000 first printing.

Ireland

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Captivated by these emerald isles

Huge Paperback (6 to 8 lbs)

New Jersey

Finalist, National Book Award in Nonfiction

Winner, Massachusetts Book Award

A Book of the Year pick from Kirkus, BuzzFeed, and Literary Hub



"The essays in this collection are restless, brilliant and short....The brevity suits not just Walker's style but his worldview, too....Keeping things quick gives him the freedom to move; he can alight on a truth without pinning it into place." --Jennifer Szalai, the New York Times



For the black community, Jerald Walker asserts in How to Make a Slave, "anger is often a prelude to a joke, as there is broad understanding that the triumph over this destructive emotion lay in finding its punchline." It is on the knife's edge between fury and farce that the essays in this exquisite collection balance. Whether confronting the medical profession's racial biases, considering the complicated legacy of Michael Jackson, paying homage to his writing mentor James Alan McPherson, or attempting to break free of personal and societal stereotypes, Walker elegantly blends personal revelation and cultural critique. The result is a bracing and often humorous examination by one of America's most acclaimed essayists of what it is to grow, parent, write, and exist as a black American male. Walker refuses to lull his readers; instead his missives urge them to do better as they consider, through his eyes, how to be a good citizen, how to be a good father, how to live, and how to love.

 

How to Make a Slave and Other Essays

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Principles of (E)motion ARC

How to change the world to make it better

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James Rollins

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A Sigma Force Novel

The Seventh Plague

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Brennan Manning

Louisiana

The Ragamuffin's Path to God

In his sequel to The Ragamuffin Gospel bestselling author Brennan Manning shows how true and radical trust in God can transform our lives.

Manning, beloved author and spiritual teacher, shows us how trust in God can transform our lives and open us up to deeper experiences of grace and love. In Ruthless Trust, he turns his focus from furious love to radical trust, revealing the ways in which trust renews our faith and help us grow.

Ruthless Trust

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Rebecca Cantrell

Texas

The Order of the Sanguines Series

New York Times bestselling authorsJames Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell combinetheir talents in a gothic tale about anancient order and the hunt for a miraculous book known only as . . . The Blood Gospel. Some books should never be found, never opened—until now. An earthquake in Masada, Israel, reveals a tomb buriedin the heart of the mountain. A trio of investigators—Sergeant Jordan Stone, a military forensics expert;Father Rhun Korza, a Vatican priest; and Dr. Erin Granger, a brilliant but disillusioned archaeologist—are sent toexplore the macabre discovery, a subterranean templeholding the crucified body of a mummified girl. But a brutal attack at the site sets the three on the run, thrusting them into a race to recover what was once preserved in the tomb's sarcophagus: a book rumored to have been written by Christ's own hand, a tome that is said to hold the secrets to His divinity. But the enemy who hounds them is a force of ancient evil directed by a leader of impossible ambitions and incalculable cunning.

The Blood Gospel

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Illinois

An in-world, humorous guide to everything Etheria, from She-Ra's POV! Complete with magic sequins on the cover.Adora has a lot to learn once she discovers she's the princess She-Ra! There are new friends to get to know, new kingdoms to explore, and a new way of life outside the Fright Zone to get used to (um... what's a birthday party?!). Adora keeps track of it all in this notebook -- her own primer on how to be a rebel princess. Complete with magic sequins on the cover!

She-Ra and the Princess of Power: Rebel Proncess Guide

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Oregon

Wuzzles: Win One for Bumblelion 

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Pip, Midge, and Dot are enjoying the shade under an apple tree when fruit starts falling around them, causing the hens to suspect a fox is in the tree trying to hit them.

Letting Go

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