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Last Scene Alive
When a Hollywood film crew descends on her small town, part-time librarian Aurora 'Roe' Teagarden gets a behind-the-scenes look at movie making - and reprises her role as an amateur...
The Way Home
A heartwarming saga about war, love and duty by the bestselling author of The Street and East End Angel . North London, 1916. When Olivia Bone and Lieutenant Lucas Black...
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public...
The Lover's Companion
A chronology of love, from First Love and Love at First Sight through unrequited love and infidelities to old love that has changed but lasted. Edited and introduced by Elizabeth...
From Rice to Riches: a Personal Journey Through a Changing China
Jane Hutcheon's connection to China goes back more than one hundred and fifty years, when her great-great-grand-uncle Phineas, a Scottish tea merchant, was drawn to its shores. When Jane became...
East and West
In June of 1997, over a century and a half of British rule in Hong Kong came to an end. Chris Patten writes about his experiences as the last governor...
The First Casualty - From the Crimea to Vietnam: War Correspondent as
By the award-winner of "News International" Journalist of the Year, Phillip Knightley has written about being a special correspondent during wartime. He questions to what extent correspondents shape myths and...
Dust & Grim
?Thirteen-year-old Molly doesn't know how she got the short end of the stick-being raised by her neglectful father-while Dustin, the older brother she's never met, got their mother and the...
The Ice House
Spring has arrived, and yet an unyielding winter freeze has left Louisa snowed into her apartment building for months with parents coping with extreme stress, a little brother struggling with...
Three Grumpy Trucks
Trucks need a time-out in this rhyming board book about grumpiness and dealing with big emotions. Whirr! Whomp! Grind! Chomp! Three toy trucks have big plans for their day at...
How Dinosaurs Went Extinct: A Safety Guide
From author Ame Dyckman and illustrator Jenn Harney comes a hilarious faux-cautionary tale featuring dad jokes and tantrum-throwing dinosaurs! In this outrageous "safety guide," a child in a museum asks...
Borders
Borders is a masterfully told story of a boy and his mother whose road trip is thwarted at the border when they identify their citizenship as Blackfoot. Refusing to identify...
The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu
Orphaned young, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is raised by the notorious leader of a California crime syndicate, who trains him to be his deadly enforcer. But when...
Lilla the Accidental Witch
Thirteen-year-old Lilla feels she is a bit different. She's quiet and shy and sometimes feels uncomfortable in the company of boys. She'd much rather spend time by herself drawing and...
How She Died, How I Lived
I was one of five. The five girls Kyle texted that day. The girls it could have been. Me. Lindsey Farrier. Taylor Avril. Blair Mattern. Jamie Stroud. Only Jamie--beautiful, saintly...
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the
The 1994 publication of the The Bell Curve and its controversial thesis catapulted the topic of genetic racial differences in IQ to the forefront of renewed and heated debate. Now,...
Jada Sly, Artist & Spy
10 year old Jada Sly is an artist and a spy-in-training. When she isn't studying art from her idols like Jackie Ormes, the first known African-American cartoonist, she's chronicling her...
In the Blue
I've always been my dad's little sunspot. But one day, his world was no longer bright and yellow-it was a deep, dark blue. As one father embarks on an emotional...
Tyler Johnson Was Here
When Marvin Johnson's twin, Tyler, goes to a party, Marvin decides to tag along to keep an eye on his brother. But what starts as harmless fun turns into a...
The Vanishing Point: A Novel
Success hasn't come easily to photographer, Julian Ladd, even though, twenty years ago, he attended the exclusive Brodsky Workshop, from where his roommate, Rye Adler, soared straight to the top....
Milo Moss Is Officially Un-Amazing
Twelve-year-old Milo Moss has been on a mission to achieve his family's lifelong goal: breaking a Guinness World Record. It's why he and his parents, along with thousands of others,...
Ping
In the era of social media, communication feels both more anxiety-producing, and more inescapable, than ever before. This clever, comforting picture book debut explores the challenges and joys of self-expression...
V Is For Vegetables: Inspired Recipes & Techniques for Home Cooks -
Gramercy Tavern's Executive Chef Michael Anthony believes a cook's job is to create delicious flavours and healthy meals. Written for the home cook, V IS FOR VEGETABLES celebrates the act...
The World's Loneliest Elephant: Based on the True Story of Kaavan and
Kaavan grew up in captivity in a Pakistani zoo. For years, he lived in poor conditions with only one friend, an elephant named Saheli. After Saheli died, Kaavan was overcome...
Mind Over Meds: Know When Drugs Are Necessary, When Alternatives Are
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Too many Americans are taking too many drugs -- and it's costing us our health, happiness, and lives. Prescription drug use in America has increased tenfold in the past 50...
The Water Museum: Stories
From one of America's preeminent literary voices comes a new story collection that proves once again why the writing of Luis Alberto Urrea has been called "wickedly good" ( Kansas...
J.R. Silver Writes Her World
What if you could write your dreams into reality with the stroke of a pen? Sixth grade is off to a difficult start for Josephine Rose Silver. Her best friend,...
Pour Me Another: 250 Ways to Find Your Favorite Drink
You know what you like to drink-but what's next? Expert mixologist and James Beard Award-winning editorial director of Milk Street J.M. Hirsch has the answer in Pour Me Another, where...
The Seasoned Life: Food, Family, Faith, and the Joy of Eating Well
In THE SEASONED LIFE Ayesha Curry will share 100 of her favorite recipes and invite readers into the home she has made with her two daughters and her husband Stephen...
Pigeon & Cat
In an abandoned city lot, Cat lives alone in a cardboard box. He leaves only to find food. One day, Cat discovers an unbroken egg too beautiful to eat. Soon,...
The Wicked King
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The enchanting and bloodthirsty sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Cruel Prince. You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring. The...
Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie
The true story of eighteenth-century mathematician Sophie Germain, who solved the unsolvable to achieve her dream. When her parents took away her candles to keep their young daughter from studying...
Private
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The police can't help youFormer Marine helicopter pilot Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. It is where you go when you need maximum...
Bone Walker
W Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear, award-winning archaeologists and internationally bestselling authors, break new ground in the riveting sequel to their bestselling novel The Summoning God. Bone Walker is...
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a
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The Dark Side is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the United States made self-destructive decisions in the pursuit of terrorists around the world-decisions that not only...
Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention
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This gripping and important book brings alive over two hundred years of humanitarian interventions. Freedom's Battle illuminates the passionate debates between conscience and imperialism ignited by the first human rights...
I Dream He Talks to Me: A Memoir of Learning How to Listen
Shortly before his second birthday, Allison Moorer's son, John Henry, stopped using the twenty-seven words he had learned. John Henry's diagnosis of nonverbal autism was devastating, even though Allison knew...
Dogfight over Tokyo: The Final Air Battle of the Pacific and the Last
When Billy Hobbs and his fellow Hellcat aviators from Air Group 88 lifted off from the venerable Navy carrier USS Yorktown early on the morning of August 15, 1945, they...
A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival
From 1969 to 1971, as the United States convulsed with political upheaval and transformative social movements, no band was bigger than Creedence Clearwater Revival. They managed a two-year barrage of...
Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in
As child, Meryl Frank was the chosen inheritor of family remembrance. Her aunt Mollie, a formidable and cultured woman, insisted that Meryl never forget who they were, where they came...
Survival of the Fastest: Weed, Speed, and the 1980s Drug Scandal that
As a kid, Randy Lanier dreamed of achieving four-wheel glory at the Indianapolis 500, but knew he'd never be able to afford the most expensive sport on earth. That all...
Henry Clay: America's Greatest Statesman
In a critical and little-known chapter of early American history, a fearless young Kentucky lawyer threw open the doors of Congress during the nation's formative years and prevented dissolution of...
American Witness: The Art and Life of Robert Frank
The first biography of Robert Frank, one of the world's greatest and most influential photographers, by the author of the acclaimed James Brown biography The One .
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction
Finalist for the 1991 National Book Award and a New York Times Notable book, Praying for Sheetrock is the story of McIntosh County, a small, isolated, and lovely place on...
Kandinsky: Complete Writings On Art
Of all the giants of twentieth-century art, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was the most prolific writer. Here, available for the first time in paperback, are all of Kandinsky's writings on art,...