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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

Get a Grip on Algebra, Geometry, and Trigonometry

A review guide to higher math--including algebra, geometry, parabolas, exponents, roots, and trigonometry--for high school and college students contains more than 350 practice exercises with solutions worked out in detail and a glossary of math terms.

Math Smart II

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Mary Jane Sterling

California

Math

Offers an introduction to the principles of algebra II, from exponential functions and laws of logarithms to conic sections and matrices.

Algebra II for Dummies

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Academic refreshers

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Illinois

25 Toys and Gifts

Create your own fuzzy menagerie of cats, monkeys, horses, birds, and more! Sue Pearl's simple felting techniques are tactile fun for crafters of all ages. Pearl presents 25 irresistible projects that use easy-to-learn wet- and needle-felting techniques, most of which can be made in only a few hours. You'll be inspired to experiment with infinite variations and colorful embellishments to make uniquely adorable creations. Get creative and bring a whole zoo of friendly, comical critters to life. 

Making Felted Friends

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Doesn’t include any materials, only book. #paperback #needlefelt 

Minnesota

Create Your Own Soft, Fuzzy Animals

Transform fluffy fuzz into cute critters!Needle felting seems a lot more like magic than a craft. Imagine a cloud of soft wool fluff. Now imagine poking that fluff for a while with a special needle as, little by little, it turns into a sturdy, durable, adorable little animal. That's magic . . . warm, fuzzy magic. With Felted Friends, young crafters can experience the magic of needle felting for themselves. Our exclusive needle-felting tool is designed specifically for newbies (ten and up). With each poke, the tool's three special needles tangle the strands of wool, making it dense and compact. Our detailed directions take readers step-by-step through the felting process. With these basic techniques, sculpting wool is simple. The 56-page book contains beautifully illustrated instructions for making palm-sized pets -- a cat, squirrel, rabbit, hedgehog, fox, and mouse. It comes complete with the felting tool, a foam block work surface, and 100% natural wool roving in six different colors. Not to mention a healthy helping of warm fuzzies.

Felted Friends

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Michigan

Is felting wool the new knitting? It sure is! Felting has become more popular than ever, and this fabulous guide is brimming with innovative ideas for recycling your old wool knitwear.  The craft is easy and fun and the projects are practical as well as gorgeous. Inside, find out everything you need to get started, from choosing the right sweaters to the most reliable method of felting, cutting, and combining the materials. Detailed assembly instructions and helpful patterns will have the crafter duplicating the projects with ease. With 50 fantastic home decor ideas for throw rugs, pot holders, pillows, and ottoman covers--even a cute baby blanket--crafters will soon be felting away.

Wool Felting Workshop

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Crafts

Anne Somerset

Florida

Poison in the Court of James I

In the autumn of 1615 the Earl and Countess of Somerset were detained on suspicion of having murdered Sir Thomas Overbury. The arrest of these leading court figures created a sensation. The Countess was both young and beautiful: the Earl was one of the richest and most powerful men in the kingdom, having risen to prominence as the male 'favourite' of the monarch James I. In a vivid narrative, Anne Somerset unravels these extraordinary events, which were widely regarded as an extreme manifestation of the corruption and vice which disfigured the court during this period. It is at once a story rich in passion and intrigue and a murder mystery, for, despite the guilty verdicts, there is much about Overbury's death that remains enigmatic. The Overbury murder case profoundly damaged the monarchy, and constituted the greatest court scandal in English history.

Unnatural Murder

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Historical fiction

Barbara W. Tuchman

New Jersey

The Calamitous 14th Century

A “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August *Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street Journal The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering age of crusades, cathedrals, and chivalry; on the other, a world plunged into chaos and spiritual agony. In this revelatory work, Barbara W. Tuchman examines not only the great rhythms of history but the grain and texture of domestic life: what childhood was like; what marriage meant; how money, taxes, and war dominated the lives of serf, noble, and clergy alike. Granting her subjects their loyalties, treacheries, and guilty passions, Tuchman re-creates the lives of proud cardinals, university scholars, grocers and clerks, saints and mystics, lawyers and mercenaries, and, dominating all, the knight—in all his valor and “furious follies,” a “terrible worm in an iron cocoon.” Praise for A Distant Mirror “Beautifully written, careful and thorough in its scholarship . . . What Ms. Tuchman does superbly is to tell how it was. . . . No one has ever done this better.”—The New York Review of Books “A beautiful, extraordinary book . . . Tuchman at the top of her powers . . . She has done nothing finer.”—The Wall Street Journal “Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . a great book, in a great historical tradition.”—Commentary

A Distant Mirror

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Louisiana

A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series

The classic account of the lead-up to World War I, told with "a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish" (The New York Times)--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns of August

During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed Olympian luxury as the underclass was "heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate." In The Proud Tower, Barbara W. Tuchman brings the era to vivid life: the decline of the Edwardian aristocracy; the Anarchists of Europe and America; Germany and its self-depicted hero, Richard Strauss; Diaghilev's Russian ballet and Stravinsky's music; the Dreyfus Affair; the Peace Conferences in The Hague; and the enthusiasm and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized by the assassination of Jean Jaurès on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close.
 
The Proud Tower, The Guns of August, and The Zimmermann Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman's classic histories of the First World War era.

The Proud Tower

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History

Opera

Georgia

How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending. Look for Brené Brown’s new podcast, Dare to Lead, as well as her ongoing podcast Unlocking Us! Social scientist Brené Brown has ignited a global conversation on courage, vulnerability, shame, and worthiness. Her pioneering work uncovered a profound truth: Vulnerability—the willingness to show up and be seen with no guarantee of outcome—is the only path to more love, belonging, creativity, and joy. But living a brave life is not always easy: We are, inevitably, going to stumble and fall. It is the rise from falling that Brown takes as her subject in Rising Strong. As a grounded theory researcher, Brown has listened as a range of people—from leaders in Fortune 500 companies and the military to artists, couples in long-term relationships, teachers, and parents—shared their stories of being brave, falling, and getting back up. She asked herself, What do these people with strong and loving relationships, leaders nurturing creativity, artists pushing innovation, and clergy walking with people through faith and mystery have in common? The answer was clear: They recognize the power of emotion and they’re not afraid to lean in to discomfort. Walking into our stories of hurt can feel dangerous. But the process of regaining our footing in the midst of struggle is where our courage is tested and our values are forged. Our stories of struggle can be big ones, like the loss of a job or the end of a relationship, or smaller ones, like a conflict with a friend or colleague. Regardless of magnitude or circumstance, the rising strong process is the same: We reckon with our emotions and get curious about what we’re feeling; we rumble with our stories until we get to a place of truth; and we live this process, every day, until it becomes a practice and creates nothing short of a revolution in our lives. Rising strong after a fall is how we cultivate wholeheartedness. It’s the process, Brown writes, that teaches us the most about who we are. ONE OF GREATER GOOD’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR “[Brené Brown’s] research and work have given us a new vocabulary, a way to talk with each other about the ideas and feelings and fears we’ve all had but haven’t quite known how to articulate. . . . Brené empowers us each to be a little more courageous.”—The Huffington Post

Rising Strong

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Brené Brown

Utah

How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

The #1 New York Times bestseller. More than 2 million copies sold! Look for Brené Brown’s new podcast, Dare to Lead, as well as her ongoing podcast Unlocking Us! From thought leader Brené Brown, a transformative new vision for the way we lead, love, work, parent, and educate that teaches us the power of vulnerability. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.”—Theodore Roosevelt Every day we experience the uncertainty, risks, and emotional exposure that define what it means to be vulnerable or to dare greatly. Based on twelve years of pioneering research, Brené Brown PhD, MSW, dispels the cultural myth that vulnerability is weakness and argues that it is, in truth, our most accurate measure of courage. Brown explains how vulnerability is both the core of difficult emotions like fear, grief, and disappointment, and the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, empathy, innovation, and creativity. She writes: “When we shut ourselves off from vulnerability, we distance ourselves from the experiences that bring purpose and meaning to our lives.” Daring Greatly is not about winning or losing. It’s about courage. In a world where “never enough” dominates and feeling afraid has become second nature, vulnerability is subversive. Uncomfortable. It’s even a little dangerous at times. And, without question, putting ourselves out there means there’s a far greater risk of getting criticized or feeling hurt. But when we step back and examine our lives, we will find that nothing is as uncomfortable, dangerous, and hurtful as standing on the outside of our lives looking in and wondering what it would be like if we had the courage to step into the arena—whether it’s a new relationship, an important meeting, the creative process, or a difficult family conversation. Daring Greatly is a practice and a powerful new vision for letting ourselves be seen.

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