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Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi - Paperback
How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history?
I ask because it's what I have to do. I'm Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match to save humanity, or to see it fall. Witness to history. Friend. Daughter. Human. Seventeen years old.
Everyone on Earth knows the tale I am part of. But you don't know my tale: How I did what I did ― how I did what I had to do ― not just to stay alive but to keep you alive, too. All of you. I'm going to tell it to you now, the only way I know how: not straight but true, the whole thing, to try to make you feel what I felt: the joy and terror and uncertainty, panic and wonder, despair and hope. Everything that happened, bringing us to Earth, and Earth out of its captivity. All through my eyes.
It's a story you know. But you don't know it all.
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Zodiac by Neal Stephenson - Paperback
Zodiac, the brilliant second novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the The Baroque Cycleand Snow Crash, is now available from Grove Press. Meet Sangamon Taylor, a New Age Sam Spade who sports a wet suit instead of a trench coat and prefers Jolt from the can to Scotch on the rocks. He knows about chemical sludge the way he knows about evil—all too intimately. And the toxic trail he follows leads to some high and foul places. Before long Taylor’s house is bombed, his every move followed, he’s adopted by reservation Indians, moves onto the FBI’s most wanted list, makes up with his girlfriend, and plays a starring role in the near-assassination of a presidential candidate. Closing the case with the aid of his burnout roommate, his tofu-eating comrades, three major networks, and a range of unconventional weaponry, Sangamon Taylor pulls off the most startling caper in Boston Harbor since the Tea Party.
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Zeroville by Steve Erickson - Paperback Fiction
Only 1 left in stockThis ''darkly beautiful'' (Washington Post) novel has been hailed as Erickson's best.
On the same August day in 1969 that a crazed hippie ''family'' led by Charles Manson commits five savage murders in the canyons above Los Angeles, a young ex-communicated seminarian arrives with images of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift - ''the two most beautiful people in the history of the movies'' - tattooed on his head. At once childlike and violent, Vikar is not a cineaste but ''cineautistic,'' sleeping at night in the Roosevelt Hotel where he's haunted by the ghost of D. W. Griffith. Vikar has stepped into the vortex of a culture in upheaval: strange drugs that frighten him, a strange sexuality that consumes him, a strange music he doesn't understand. Over the course of the seventies and into the eighties, he pursues his obsession with film from one screening to the next and through a series of cinema-besotted conversations and encounters with starlets, burglars, guerrillas, escorts, teenage punks, and veteran film editors, only to discover a secret whose clues lie in every film ever made.
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Zero History : A Novel by William Gibson - Hardcover LARGE PRINT Edition
Only 1 left in stockHollis Henry never intended to work for global marketing magnate Hubertus Bigend again. But now she’s broke, and Bigend has just the thing to get her back in the game...
Milgrim can disappear in almost any setting, and his Russian is perfectly idiomatic—so much so that he spoke it with his therapist in the secret Swiss clinic where Bigend paid for him to be cured of his addiction...
Garreth doesn't owe Bigend a thing. But he does have friends from whom he can call in the kinds of favors powerful people need when things go sideways...
They all have something Bigend wants as he finds himself outmaneuvered and adrift, after a Department of Defense contract for combat-wear turns out to be the gateway drug for arms dealers so shadowy they can out-Bigend Bigend himself.
“Zero History is [Gibson’s] best yet, a triumph of science fiction as social criticism and adventure.”—BoingBoing.net
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Your Wish is Your Command by Kevin Trudeau - Audio CDs Lecture Law of Atrraction
"Your Wish Is Your Command" 14-CD audio is a recording of a private and unique 2 day seminar. This set of audio CD's is a life-changing recording. Learn how to manifest your goals and dreams from the highly successful people. Whether you are looking for better health, financial freedom, a thriving business, a great relationship or any other your wish you may have. Change your life for the better today!
Additional information from speaker: A few months ago, I got together in the Swiss Alps with some of the most powerful, wealthy and influential people in the world to discuss how to really attract money and success. (In a minute, you're going to learn how to gain this knowledge.)
This was not some group of wannabes or new age phonies. In attendance were millionaires, billionaires, high-level government officials, leaders of countries, members of royal families, politicians and captains of industry. We also had the highest ranking members of exclusive secret societies including the Brotherhood (which I [Kevin Trudeau] was a member of for 30 years), Freemasons, Illuminati, Skull and Bones and others. (What they shared about how to achieve success left me speechless and I'm sure you'll be just as amazed, so stay with me.)
The event was so exclusive that attendees paid OVER $10,000 to attend and traveled from every continent around the world to get this information. And when it ended, everyone said it was not only the best $10,000 they ever spent, they said it changed their lives. Imagine how powerful this information had to be for a billionaire to say that!
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Your Rights in the Workplace NOLO 6th edition Paperback "Law for All"
Only 1 left in stockThe most complete guide available to workplace laws, Your Rights in the Workplace is essential for every employee.
In plain English, the handbook covers your rights on the job, from hiring and getting paid through privacy and firing.
Learn everything you need to know about:
*illegal firings and layoffs
*challenging a job loss
*wages and hours, including overtime & leave
*privacy on your e-mail and voice mail
*family and medical leave
*on the job safety and health
*health insurance and retirement plans
*workplace testing
*sexual harassment
*sex, race and age discrimination
*discrimination against workers with disabilities
*unemployment, disability and workers' compensation insuranceThe 6th edition of Your Rights in the Workplace has been completely updated to provide current state and federal laws and regulations.
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You've Been So Lucky Already : A Memoir by Alethea Black - Hardcover
From the award-winning author of I Knew You’d Be Lovely comes an empowering and disarmingly funny memoir about grief and illness—and the wit and wisdom it takes to survive it.
“Wonderfully poetic with wry observations, Black’s writing both amazes and charms.” —Publishers Weekly
As a child, Alethea Black drifts between her father, a brilliant mathematician who is also her best friend, and her mother, a frank and outspoken woman on fire. After her father’s death, Alethea is left unmoored, a young woman more connected to life’s ethereal mysteries than to practical things such as doing laundry or paying taxes.
And then, just when life seems to be getting back on track, she’s suddenly racked by crushing fatigue, inexplicable pain, and memory loss. With her grasp on reality fading, and specialist after specialist declaring nothing is wrong, Alethea turns to her own research and desperate home remedies. But even as her frantic quest for wellness seems to lead to confusion and despair, she discovers more about her own strength than she ever could have imagined—and becomes a woman on fire herself.
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You're Supposed to Be Wealthy by Dr. Creflo Dollar - Paperback
Only 1 left in stockAnyone desiring financial prosperity will welcome this revealing and effective insight into how God has promised to richly bless us and give us abundance.
When it comes to going to the next level in life, the area of finances is one in which God desires to increase and expand us to greater levels. As we prioritize our finances and commit to making God's way of doing things our primary focus, we can begin to experience the financial blessing God promises in His Word.
In YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE WEALTHY, Creflo Dollar gives spiritual and practical wisdom on how to position yourself for financial increase. Not only must you activate spiritual principles such as walking by faith and obedience, but you must also learn how to operate in a level of stewardship that demonstrates character, responsibility, and wisdom.
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You Are Not My Son : Gay Teen Romance (Fairmont Boys Book 3) by Jay Argent - Paperback
Alex and Liam have left their hometown and its ghosts to turn a new page in their lives—and their relationship. After their rocky road in high school, Eastwood University feels like a safe haven. None of their new friends, even the jocks on the varsity teams, care that they are gay. In fact, they welcome them with open arms.
Just when their life in Eddington seems perfect, Alex’s family life falls apart, and their relationship is once again in danger. Alex needs to decide whether to come out to his parents and face the fateful consequences. Worst of all, when Alex’s father starts to pull the strings, the situation is no longer in their control.
You Are Not My Son is the third book in Jay Argent’s bestselling Fairmont Boys series. It’s a story about the kind of love and friendship that are necessary to beat even the toughest obstacles.
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Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer - Paperback USED Like New
Only 1 left in stockMordantly funny, thought-provoking travel essays, from the acclaimed author of Out of Sheer Rage and “one of our most original writers” (New York Magazine).
This isn’t a self-help book; it’s a book about how Geoff Dyer could do with a little help. In these genre-defying tales, he travels from Amsterdam to Cambodia, Rome to Indonesia, Libya to Burning Man in the Black Rock Desert, floundering in a sea of grievances, with fleeting moments of transcendental calm his only reward for living in a perpetual state of motion. But even as he recounts his side-splitting misadventures in each of these locales, Dyer is always able to sneak up and surprise you with insight into much more serious matters. Brilliantly riffing off our expectations of external and internal journeys, Dyer welcomes the reader as a companion, a fellow perambulator in search of something and nothing at the same time.
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Year One : Chronicles of the One, Book 1 by Nora Roberts - Hardcover
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A stunning new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts―Year One is an epic of hope and horror, chaos and magick, and a journey that will unite a desperate group of people to fight the battle of their lives…
It began on New Year’s Eve.The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed―and more than half of the world’s population was decimated.
Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magick rose up in its place. Some of it is good, like the witchcraft worked by Lana Bingham, practicing in the loft apartment she shares with her lover, Max. Some of it is unimaginably evil, and it can lurk anywhere, around a corner, in fetid tunnels beneath the river―or in the ones you know and love the most.
As word spreads that neither the immune nor the gifted are safe from the authorities who patrol the ravaged streets, and with nothing left to count on but each other, Lana and Max make their way out of a wrecked New York City. At the same time, other travelers are heading west too, into a new frontier. Chuck, a tech genius trying to hack his way through a world gone offline. Arlys, a journalist who has lost her audience but uses pen and paper to record the truth. Fred, her young colleague, possessed of burgeoning abilities and an optimism that seems out of place in this bleak landscape. And Rachel and Jonah, a resourceful doctor and a paramedic who fend off despair with their determination to keep a young mother and three infants in their care alive.
In a world of survivors where every stranger encountered could be either a savage or a savior, none of them knows exactly where they are heading, or why. But a purpose awaits them that will shape their lives and the lives of all those who remain.
The end has come. The beginning comes next.
About the Author
NORA ROBERTS is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 200 novels, including Come Sundown, The Obsession,The Liar, The Collector, Whiskey Beach, and many more. She is also the author of the bestselling In Death series written under the pen name J.D. Robb. There are more than 500 million copies of her books in print. She lives in Maryland.
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Yarrick The Omnibus (Warhammer 40K) by David Annandale - Paperback Giant Omnibus Edition
Only 1 left in stockOmnibus of novels and short stories revealing the brutal battles which transformed Commissar Yarrick from a mere man into a legend of the Imperium.
Yarrick: once just a name, but now a legend, forged from the blood of the Imperium’s enemies. Time after time, Commissar Sebastian Yarrick has fearlessly led Imperial forces to victory beneath black banners of vengeance, even when defeat seemed inevitable. From his early campaigns as a newly blooded officer from the schola progenium ranks, to the brutal battles of the Second and Third Wars for Armageddon, one thing has never changed: Yarrick will not fail. No world will fall to Chaos, heresy or xenos while under his protection. This gripping omnibus contains all of author David Annandale's stories about the famed commissar, and includes two novels - Imperial Creed and Pyres of Armageddon - along with the novella Chains of Golgotha and seven short stories, each revealing the bloody battles that helped forge a legend.
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Writing Poetry and Getting Published (Teach Yourself) - Paperback USED
Only 1 left in stockThe bestselling guide to finding your voice, writing poetry, and getting published
Teach Yourself Writing Poetry is a user-friendly and comprehensive guide that will prove indispensable if you're seeking creative guidance, inspiration, and practical advice. Covering everything from mood, style, and tone to learning about poetry on the 'Net, this fully updated edition will help you find your voice. Containing straightforward advice on how to get published, the very latest on prizes, festivals, and performance poetry as well as plenty of useful examples and exercises to try out yourself, it is a thoroughly readable and engaging book.
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Writers Inc A Guide to Writing, Thinking, & Learning by Kemper Sebranek Meyer - Paperback USED
Only 1 left in stockPacked with everything teachers want and students need in a writing handbook, the new edition of Writers INC is a comprehensive resource updated with information for today's students including: more writing and revising strategies based on the six traits of effective writing; expanded guidelines for writing expository and persuasive essays; additional information on writing research papers including writing MLA thesis statements, using APA research guidelines, searching for information in the library and on the Internet, and citing electronic sources; updated strategies for writing with computers including writing multimedia reports and publishing on-line; more information on thinking and learning skills including viewing, notetaking, and test-taking skills. Give your students an invaluable resource they'll turn to again and again in school and beyond.
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Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight : Thirty Years of Complexity Thinking at the Santa Fe Institute by David C. Krakauer, editor - Paperback
Over the last three decades, the Santa Fe Institute and its network of researchers have been pursuing a revolution in science.Ignoring the boundaries of disciplines and schools and searching for novel fundamental ideas, theories, and practices, this international community integrates the full range of scientific inquiries that will help us to understand and survive on a complex planet.This volume collects essays from the past thirty years of research, in which contributors explain in clear and accessible language many of the deepest challenges and insights of complexity science. Explore the evolution of complex systems science with chapters from Nobel Laureates Murray Gell-Mann and Kenneth Arrow, as well as numerous pioneering complexity researchers, including John Holland, Brian Arthur, Robert May, Richard Lewontin, Jennifer Dunne, and Geoffrey West.
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Working-Class Men in Love by Dan Sexton - Paperback Omnibus Edition
Men Loving Men: 6 Sexy Romantic Adventures Crammed with Heart.
Book 1: The Handyman Can – Jake loves landscaping almost as much as he loves his kid sister. Cory is a successful real-estate tycoon devoted to family. Sparks fly when the two hunks meet and build something fit for a home makeover TV show.
Book 2: Wrestling with Love – Sometimes you have to give it your all and let yourself fall in love so hard it hurts. Enemies turn friends. Eric and Quin compete at wrestling but grapple with an attraction to each other that they struggle to understand. All in love is fair until their secret is revealed, and they have to fight to keep love alive.
Book 3: Never Kiss – Out of work, Tony turns to the Internet porn to pay the bills. When a seemingly, straight Clark Kent lookalike wanders into his life, Tony falls for Superman. Will the hero agree to being filmed? Could a “straight-bait” video further something between the two?
Book 4: Four-Wheel Flying – Trevor dreams of joining the Air Force and flying planes for a living. His friend Pete likes to ride ATVs and struggles to get by. Small-town Tennessee and narrow-minded families hold both hot rednecks back. Off-road explorations release pent-up desires, and a friendship buds into something more. Can they escape the town?
Book 5: Waiting for Dartmouth – Tommy has had his eye on the family landscaper Chris for some time. On a sweltering day a week before heading off for Dartmouth, Tommy invites the weed-whacking man into the house. The boys let off steam and get an education even Dartmouth couldn’t offer. Could a budding romance change Tommy’s plans for a white-collar life?
Bonus: Pet Monster – Richie, a bookish and sheltered kid, is so ashamed of his oversized manhood that it’s held him back from having relations. When the virgin goes away to college and joins the basketball team, he discovers straight-but-fluid mates who show him the ropes. This brawny nerd learns he’s not a monster after all and pines for more with eyes on the hunky school librarian.
Working-Class Men in Love involves bi-curious men coming to grips with their sexuality and discovering first-time gay love. Discover how these stories intertwine with repeat characters, settings, and more.
- "Forget the sex, the emotions portrayed with a delicacy that weeps off the page!" says author C. Puccia.
- An Amazon Top Reviewer describes Sexton's work as, “sophisticated, informed and creative.”
This box set includes the entire Working-Class Man series...
- Two chart-topping novels (The Handyman Can and Wrestling with Love),
- The story Never Kiss that you can't get anywhere,
- Two NEW novellas Four-Wheel Flying and Waiting for Dartmouth,
- Plus, the BONUS story Pet Monster.
Over 175,000 words. 100+ five-star reviews. Find out why thousands of readers have fallen for Dan Sexton’s sexy series.
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Worker in the Light by George Noory - Paperback Self-Help
Only 2 left in stockGeorge R. Noory is the host of America's top late-night radio talk show, Coast to Coast AM, which is broadcast to more than 500 radio stations in the U.S. and Canada and streamed over the Internet to millions of people each night. Noory truly believes that there are forces, both good and evil, at work on Earth, forces that can be harnessed by human beings. Fueled by a transcending experience at a very young age, Noory turned his life into an investigation of the possibilities and influence of such forces, and how we can use them to enhance our lives.
“If you've ever wanted to travel in time, see your own future, and spread the wings of your spirit, this book is for you. One of the best books on human empowerment I have ever read.” ―Uri Geller, world-renowned psychic
Now George Noory has woven his life's work into both an amazing memoir and a miraculous key that you can use to unlock the secret of your own sensual transcendence and liberate your limitless potential. Through Worker in the Light, George Noory will show readers how to:
*Unlock the secrets to unlimited spiritual growth
*Transcend all doubts and fears
*Shatter the prison walls of their five senses
*Deploy the power of intuition to see the future
*Free themselves from the confines of time
*Facilitate the power of lucid dreamingThrough easily understood, step-by-step instructions, and examples from his own life, George Noory shows you how he has surpassed his own limitations and frustrations, how he has freed himself from doubts and fears, and how he glimpsed the right way out of life's desperate straits. He will teach you how you, too, can overcome fear and doubt and find happiness and success. By the end of this book, you will no longer be alone. You, too, will be a worker in the light.
About the Author
George R. Noory is the host of America's top overnight radio show, Coast to Coast AM, which is broadcast over 500 radio stations as well as streamed over the Internet to over 10 million people a night. He was born in Detroit and now resides in St. Louis and Los Angeles. A three-time Emmy Award winning producer, Noory also spent nine years in the United States Naval reserve as an officer being awarded the distinguished Navy Achievement Award.
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Workbook for Breath The New Science of a Lost Art - Paperback Journal
Only 1 left in stockNo matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly.
ABOUT THE ORIGINAL BOOK:
There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences.
Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is.
Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
Without a conscious effort and dedication, achieving the goals from the original book is impossible.
This book provides a good self-assessment guide with penetrating insights for you and is designed to help provoke your thought and opens up deeper insight into the original text.
This Book is an incredible companion book and it is not meant to replace the original book: Breath
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Words in a French Life by Kristin Espinasse - Hardcover Nonfiction
Only 1 left in stockImagine a former French major getting vocabulary tips from her young children! That was the experience of Kristin Espinasse, an American who fell in love with a Frenchman and moved to his country to marry him and start a family. When her children began speaking the language, she found herself falling in love with it all over again. To relate the stories of her sometimes bumpy, often comic, and always poignant assimilation, she created a blog called "French Word a Day," drawing more admirers than she ever could have imagined.
With an approach that is as charming as it is practical, Espinasse shares her story through the everyday French words and phrases that never seem to make it to American classrooms. "Comptoir" ("counter") is a piece about the intricacies of grocery shopping in France, and "Linge" ("laundry") swoons over the wonderful scent the laundry has after being hung out in the French countryside while "Toquade" ("crush") tells of Espinasse's young son, who begins piling gel onto his hair before school each morning when he becomes smitten with a girl in class.
Steeped in French culture but experienced through American eyes, Words in a French Life will delight armchair travelers, Francophiles, and mothers everywhere.
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Wonderland by Joyce Carol Oates - Paperback 20th-Century Classics
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. Spanning from the Great Depression to the turbulent Vietnam War era, Wonderland is the epic account of Jesse Vogel, a boy who emerged from a family tragedy with his life spared but his world torn apart. Orphaned after watching his father murder his entire family, Jesse embarks on a personal odyssey that takes him from a Dickensian foster home to college and graduate school to the pinnacle of the medical profession. As an adult, Jesse must summon the strength to reach across the “generation gap” and rescue his endangered teenaged daughter, who has fallen into the drug-infused 1960s counterculture.
Hailed by Library Journal as “the greatest of Oates’s novels,” Wonderland is the capstone of a magnificent literary excursion that plunges beneath the glossy surface of American life.
Wonderland is the final novel in Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet. The books that complete this acclaimed series, A Garden of Earthly Delights, Expensive People, and them, are also available from the Modern Library.
From Publishers Weekly
Our review of Oates's 1971 masterpiece starring Jesse Vogel, reissued here with a new afterword, concluded: " 'Wonderland' is not a place from which one escapes unscathed but for those who care about the best in American fiction it must be visited.' "
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.About the Author
Joyce Carol Oates is the author of more than 70 books, including novels, short story collections, poetry volumes, plays, essays, and criticism, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde. Among her many honors are the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction and the National Book Award. Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
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Wonder by R. J. Palacio : Now a Major Motion Picture - Hardcover Fiction
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIA ROBERTS, OWEN WILSON, AND JACOB TREMBLAY!
Over 6 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller WONDER and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face.
The book that inspired the Choose Kind movement.
I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.
August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid—but his new classmates can’t get past Auggie’s extraordinary face. WONDER, now a #1 New York Times bestseller and included on the Texas Bluebonnet Award master list, begins from Auggie’s point of view, but soon switches to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others. These perspectives converge in a portrait of one community’s struggle with empathy, compassion, and acceptance.
"Wonder is the best kids' book of the year," said Emily Bazelon, senior editor at Slate.com and author of Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy. In a world where bullying among young people is an epidemic, this is a refreshing new narrative full of heart and hope. R.J. Palacio has called her debut novel “a meditation on kindness” —indeed, every reader will come away with a greater appreciation for the simple courage of friendship. Auggie is a hero to root for, a diamond in the rough who proves that you can’t blend in when you were born to stand out.
Join the conversation: #thewonderofwonder
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Wolf Woman by Sherryl Jordan - Mass Market Paperback USED
Only 1 left in stockHer earliest memories are of the wolves. And of the hunters who killed them and reclaimed her for human society--as a slave. Tanith has grown up as part of a savage, plundering clan, in a world ruled by brute strength, superstition, and animal cunning. Now, hated and shunned, Tanith flees the human clan for the more human company of wolves. But the gentle chief's son from a neighboring clan beckons her back. He offers Tanith the chance to join once again with her own kind. She must, finally, choose which cry to answer--the wavering, longing bellow of the human or the steady, beating call of the wolf.
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Wittgenstein's Poker by David Edmonds and‎ John Eidinow - Paperback USED
Only 1 left in stockThe Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers
On October 25, 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, England, the great twentieth-century philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The meeting -- which lasted ten minutes -- did not go well. Their loud and aggressive confrontation became the stuff of instant legend, but precisely what happened during that brief confrontation remained for decades the subject of intense disagreement.
An engaging mix of philosophy, history, biography, and literary detection, Wittgenstein's Poker explores, through the Popper/Wittgenstein confrontation, the history of philosophy in the twentieth century. It evokes the tumult of fin-de-siécle Vienna, Wittgentein's and Popper's birthplace; the tragedy of the Nazi takeover of Austria; and postwar Cambridge University, with its eccentric set of philosophy dons, including Bertrand Russell. At the center of the story stand the two giants of philosophy themselves -- proud, irascible, larger than life -- and spoiling for a fight.
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With Violets : A Novel in Trade Paperback by Elizabeth Robards
Only 1 left in stockParis in the 1860s: a magnificent time of expression, where brilliant young artists rebel against the stodginess of the past to freely explore new styles of creating—and bold new ways of living.
Passionate, beautiful, and utterly devoted to her art, Berthe Morisot is determined to be recognized as an important painter. But as a woman, she finds herself sometimes overlooked in favor of her male counterparts—Monet, Pissarro, Degas.
And there is one great artist among them who captivates young Berthe like none other: the celebrated genius Édouard Manet. A mesmerizing, breathtaking rogue—a shameless roué, undeterred and irresistible—his life is a wildly overgrown garden of scandal. He becomes Berthe's mentor, her teacher...her lover, despite his curiously devoted marriage to his frumpy, unappealing wife, Suzanne, and his many rumored dalliances with his own models. For a headstrong young woman from a respectable family, an affair with such an intoxicating scoundrel can only spell heartbreak and ruin.
But Berthe refuses to resign herself to the life of quiet submission that Society has dictated for her. Undiscouraged, she will create her own destiny...and confront life—and love—on her own terms.
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With Their Eyes September 11th edited by Annie Thoms - Paperback USED
Only 1 left in stockA collection of powerful essays in spoken word form remembering September 11, 2001, by high school students who witnessed the tragedy unfold.
A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age
“Profound.” —Booklist
“Moving.” —Publishers Weekly
“Rings with authenticity and resonates with power.” —School Library Journal
Tuesday, September 11, started off like any other day at Stuyvesant High School, located only a few blocks away from the World Trade Center.
The semester was just beginning, and the students, faculty, and staff were ready to start a new year. But within a few hours on that Tuesday morning, they would share an experience that would transform their lives—and the lives of all Americans.
These powerful essays by the students of Stuyvesant High School remember those who were lost and those who were forced to witness this tragedy. Here, in their own words, are the firsthand stories of a day we will never forget.
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With Americans of Past and Present by J.J. Jusserand - Paperback REPRODUCTION
This is a look at American history dating back to the time of the Revolution.
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International News Books & Gifts publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. International News Books & Gifts uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Witches' Brew : A Magic Kingdom of Landover Novel by Terry Brooks - Hardcover USED
Only 1 left in stockAn acorn falls far from the tree
Former Chicago lawyer Ben Holiday was very proud and quite happy. And why shouldn't he be? The Magic Kingdom which he ruled as High Lord was finally at peace. He was free to lie back and watch as his new daughter grew.
And grow she did--by leaps and bournds, shooting through infancy in a matter of months. She took her first steps and learned to swim in the same week. An amalgam of magic and heredity, Mistaya was born a seedling, nourished by soils from Landover, Earth, and the fairy mists, come into being in the dank, misty deadness of the Deep Fell. She was as lovely as her mother, the sylph Willow, with dazzling green eyes that cut to the soul. Ben wished he could enjoy his daughter's childhood and his happy kingdom forever.
Alas, those idyllic days were not to last. For Rydall, king of lands beyond the fairy mist, rode up to the gates of Sterling Silver and shattered peace of Landover. His armies were poised on the border, ready to invade unless Ben accepted a challenge: Rydall would send seven champions to face Ben, each in a different form. If Ben triumphed over all seven, Rydall would then abandon his claims to the kingdom.
Some counseled the High Lord to refuse Rydall's challenge, but Holiday could not, for Mistaya had been snatched from her guardians by foul magic. And Rydall held the key to her fate...
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Wintering Well (Aladdin Historical Fiction) by Lea Wait - Paperback
"WHAT HAPPENED THIS AFTERNOON IS TOO TERRIBLE TO WRITE. . . . PLEASE, GOD, LET WILL LIVE. AND, PLEASE, GOD, FORGIVE ME."
All Will Ames ever wanted to do was farm. But when he's injured in a farm accident, Will is left without a leg -- and without his future.
There's no place on a farm for a cripple. And so, after a long winter of healing, Will and his sister Cassie, who blames herself for the accident, go to stay in town with their older sister and her husband. There, as Maine becomes a state, Will learns that perhaps even without his leg, there's another, brighter future in store for him. And Cassie, too, learns that maybe, in the changing world of 1820, Will isn't the only one with the chance at a different, exciting future. . . .
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Winter Town Wintertown by Stephen Emond - Hardcover YA Fiction
Only 1 left in stockEvery winter, straight-laced, Ivy League bound Evan looks forward to a visit from Lucy, a childhood pal who moved away after her parent's divorce. But when Lucy arrives this year, she's changed. The former "girl next door" now has chopped dyed black hair, a nose stud, and a scowl. But Evan knows that somewhere beneath the Goth, "Old Lucy" still exists, and he's determined to find her... even if it means pissing her off.
Garden State meets Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist in this funny and poignant illustrated novel about opposites who fall in love.
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Winter Count by Barry Lopez - Paperback Short Stories
Only 1 left in stock"Perfectly crafted. . . . [These] stories expand of their own accord, lingering in the mind the way intense light lingers in the retina." --Los Angeles Times
"Animals and landscapes have not had this weight, this precision, in American fiction since Hemingway's young heroes were fishing the streams of upper Michigan and Spain." --San Francisco Chronicle
A flock of great blue herons descending through a snowstorm to the streets of New York. . . . A river in Nebraska disappearing mysteriously. . . . A ghostly herd of buffalo that sings a song of death. . . . A mystic who raises constellations of stones from the desert floor. . . . All these are to be found in Winter Count, the exquisite and rapturous collection by the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams.
In these resonant and unpredictable stories Barry Lopez proves that he is one of the most important and original writers at work in America today. With breathtaking skill and a few deft strokes he produces painfully beautiful scenes. Combining the real with the wondrous, he offers us a pure vision of people alive to the immediacy and spiritual truth of nature.
"Powerful. . . . [Lopez] can steal your breath away." --Minneapolis Tribune
"Richly allusive, moving, compassionate, these stories celebrate the web of nature that holds the world together." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Winter Break : A Novel in Trade Paperback by Kayla Perrin
Only 1 left in stockI knew it wasn't true. It couldn't be. . . . And yet, I couldn't help staring at him, wondering. However fleeting, there was the slightest hint of doubt in my mind.
Didi Randall doesn't think her life can get much worse than public humiliation when her boyfriend is the subject of a vicious rumor on campus. Despite their four-year relationship, the rumor puts a wedge between her and Drake, but Didi is hopeful that they can reconnect on the winter break cruise. She, Drake, and a handful of Lan-U students will be sailing the high seas of the Caribbean just before the start of the New Year and new semester.
The cruise turns out to anything but happy and carefree when ugly secrets and grudges between friends are revealed. But Didi's troubles go beyond simple public humiliation when she wakes up on deck early in the morning, disoriented, and then learns that Drake is missing. It quickly becomes clear that he must have gone overboard. But was it an accident―or was it murder?