Sarah Young

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Wisconsin

Are your holidays too hectic? Take a few minutes to savor the season with this beautiful Christmas edition of Jesus Calling(R)devotions, a perfect gift that includes 50 short selections along with festive and breathtaking imagery. Jesus Calling(R) for Christmas is a compilation of 50 seasonally appropriate devotions from Sarah Young's bestselling brand. In addition to the heartwarming devotions, enjoy the Christmas story from the Bible, Old Testament prophecies about the birth of Jesus, and exquisite images. Whether a self-purchase to enhance your observation of Advent and the birth of the Christ child or a natural gift for friends and loved ones, Jesus Calling(R) for Christmas will prove an annual treasure for celebrating the season.

Jesus Calling for Christmas

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Brother Lawrence

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Brother Lawrence was a man of humble beginnings who discovered the secret of living moment by moment with a sense of God's presence. For nearly 300 years, this unparalleled classic has given both blessing and instruction to millions who can be content with nothing less than feeling God's presence throughout each simple day.

The Practice of the Presence of God

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Katie Davis Majors

Ann Voskamp

Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful

New York Times bestseller

How do you hold on to hope
when you don't get the ending
you asked for?

When Katie Davis Majors moved to Uganda, accidentally founded a booming organization, and later became the mother of thirteen girls through the miracle of adoption, she determined to weave her life together with the people she desired to serve. But joy often gave way to sorrow as she invested her heart fully in walking alongside people in the grip of poverty, addiction, desperation, and disease.
 
After unexpected tragedy shook her family, for the first time Katie began to wonder, Is God really good? Does He really love us? When she turned to Him with her questions, God spoke truth to her heart and drew her even deeper into relationship with Him.
 
Daring to Hope is an invitation to cling to the God of the impossible--the God who whispers His love to us in the quiet, in the mundane, when our prayers are not answered the way we want or the miracle doesn't come. It's about a mother discovering the extraordinary strength it takes to be ordinary. It's about choosing faith no matter the circumstance and about encountering God's goodness in the least expected places.
 
Though your heartaches and dreams may take a different shape, you will find your own questions echoed in these pages. You'll be reminded of the gifts of joy in the midst of sorrow. And you'll hear God's whisper: Hold on to hope. I will meet you here.

Daring to Hope

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Brian Floca

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Flight of Apollo 11

"An extraordinary delight for a reader of any age." --The New York Times Book Review

Brian Floca explores Apollo 11's famed moon landing with this newly expanded edition of Moonshot!

Simply told, grandly shown, and now with eight additional pages of brand-new art and more in-depth information about the historic moon landing, here is the flight of Apollo 11. Here for a new generation of readers and explorers are the steady astronauts clicking themselves into gloves and helmets, strapping themselves into sideways seats. Here are their great machines in all their detail and monumentality, the ROAR of rockets, and the silence of the Moon. Here is a story of adventure and discovery--a story of leaving and returning during the summer of 1969, and a story of home, seen whole, from far away.

Moonshot

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Tammy Gagne

Loyal Hunting Companions

Pointers

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Highlights

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

1,000+ Wholesome Jokes for Daily Laughs, Funniest Joke Book for Kids 6+

Winter, spring, summer or fall, this pun-believable kids joke book will bring laughs for all! Get ready for 365 days of knee-slapping, side-splitting, rib-tickling laughs with this 352-page joke book for kids, perfect for young comedians ages 6 and up. Hundreds of jokes will keep kids smiling and reading for fun all year long. With jokes about all major holidays and every day in between, this joke collection will create a year’s worth of anticipation and excitement. Kids will look forward to finding what the next day’s joke brings! Every age-appropriate joke is curated by childhood experts to bring kids laugh-out-loud, shareable fun. Count on Highlights for wholesome, squeaky-clean humor the entire family can enjoy. Plus, sharing jokes with family and friends is more than just fun. Perfect for reluctant readers, Highlights joke books provide: screen-free entertainment for road trips, rainy days and more wordplay that boosts young readers’ language skills a boost to confidence and social-emotional skills that will help them succeed in school For over 75 years, Highlights has inspired children to become Curious, Creative, Caring and Confident individuals. With products that encourage thinking, creativity and self-expression, Highlights helps kids build essential skills, all while having fun.

365 Days of Jokes: a Year of the Funniest Jokes Ever!

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James Patterson

Chris Grabenstein

The story of an extraordinary robot that signs up for an ordinary fifth grade class and changes elementary school forever is now in paperback! It's never easy for Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez to fit in, so he's dreading the day when his genius mom insists he bring her newest invention to school: a robot he calls E--for "Error". E not only thinks he's Sammy's brother... he's actually even nerdier than Sammy. Will E be Sammy's one-way ticket to Loserville? Or will he prove to the world that it's cool to be square?

House of Robots

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Mo O'Hara

In Cats in the Crater: My FANGtastically Evil Vampire Pet, the third in the spin-off series to Mo O'Hara's New York Times bestselling My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish chapter books, an aspiring evil scientist and his mostly evil (and totally forbidden) vampire kitten must face a trap-filled Volcanic Lair at Evil Scientist Summer Camp. Welcome back to Camp Mwhaaa-haa-ha-a-watha! My epic summer at Evil Scientist Summer Camp hasn't gone quite like I planned, but THIS week I will DEFINITELY be Evil Emperor of the Camp. I've been stocking up on evil inventions and Fang's been sharpening her claws. We're ready for anything! Okay, so maybe I wasn't really prepared to find out that Geeky Girl's grandmother is actually Madame Mako, inventor of the original volcano lair, and ruler of the most famous evil empire ever . . . but, this is going to be GREAT. Geeky Girl can inherit her grandmother's empire, and I'll come in as Head Partner, and help teach her the best way to be an evil ruler—with an epically evil crown! Let our Epic Evil Empire begin! Signed, The Great and Powerful Mark Featuring illustrations by Marek Jagucki

Cats in the Crater: My FANGtastically Evil Vampire Pet

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The Rabbids are crazy, silly, and hilarious--and in this start to an illustrated chapter book series, they're under investigation!

The Rabbids have landed their yellow submarine-shaped spacecraft on Earth, and they are all set to wreak havoc everywhere they go. That is, unless the SGAII-RD (Secret Government Agency Intruder Investigations--Rabbids Division) can stop them!

In Case File #1: First Contact, it's Special Agent Glyker's first day on the job at the SGAII-RD, and his mission is to observe the Rabbids, figure out what motivates them, and then STOP them! The wily Rabbids are simply full of extreme curiosity, but because of the chaos they constantly cause, Agent Glyker is convinced they have an agenda.

Peek into Glyker's top-secret files and laugh along as the Rabbids stay one step ahead of the poor agent...for now!

Rabbids TM & © 2014 Ubisoft Entertainment.

Case File #1 First Contact

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Ben Garrod

Science

Packed full of dinosaur discoveries, battles, adventures, fascinating facts, quizzes and a helpful glossary along with cartoon illustrations and paleo art, these nonfiction titles read like novels and are just as engrossing.

So You Think You Know About ...Velociraptor?

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Sally Rippin

Jack is mad that his best friend Billie got the solo he wanted. But when things go wrong on concert night, can Jack save the day in The Scary Solo?

This early reader series featuring Billie B. Brown's best friend, Jack, is full of down-to-earth, real-life, fun and funny stories that boys can enjoy and relate to. With word art or illustrations on every second page, and no huge blocks of text or intimidating words, they're perfect for newly independent readers.

The Scary Solo

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Penny Ives

This favourite rhyme is read and sung on this audio version.

Five Little Ducks

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Perfect for early childhood development, happy babies, laughing babies, silly babies and crying babies are found on the pages of this padded board book.

Look at all the sweet baby faces showing that they are happy, sad, sleepy, and more. Your baby can make the same expressions to help recognize common expressions. This durable little book is sure to pique baby's interest.

With bright colorful photos and simple word labels that capture the expressions and moods of babies throughout their busy days, Baby Faces will mesmerize little ones when they see other children just like them.

Baby Faces

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SparkNotes

Hamlet (No Fear Shakespeare)

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Michelle Min Sterling

A Novel

In a near-future northern settlement, a handful of climate change survivors find their fates intertwined in this mesmerizing and transportive novel in the vein of Station Eleven and The Power.

In the far north of Canada sits Camp Zero, an American building project hiding many secrets.

Desperate to help her climate-displaced Korean immigrant mother, Rose agrees to travel to Camp Zero and spy on its architect in exchange for housing. She arrives at the same time as another newcomer, a college professor named Grant who is determined to flee his wealthy family's dark legacy. Gradually, they realize that there is more to the architect than previously thought, and a disturbing mystery lurks beneath the surface of the camp. At the same time, rumors abound of an elite group of women soldiers living and working at a nearby Cold War-era climate research station. What are they doing there? And who is leading them?

An electrifying page-turner where nothing is as it seems, Camp Zero cleverly explores how the intersection of gender, class, and migration will impact who and what will survive in a warming world.

Camp Zero

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Jesmyn Ward

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow—comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War. “‘Let us descend,’ the poet now began, ‘and enter this blind world.’” —Inferno, Dante Alighieri Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader’s guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Ward leads readers through the descent, this, her fourth novel, is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation. From one of the most singularly brilliant and beloved writers of her generation, this miracle of a novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very land—the rich but unforgiving forests, swamps, and rivers of the American South. Let Us Descend is Jesmyn Ward’s most magnificent novel yet, a masterwork for the ages.

Let Us Descend

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Charles Ghigna

The Alphabet Parade

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Cixin Liu

Ken Liu

"Wildly imaginative, really interesting." —President Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogy The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin. Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision. The Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy The Three-Body Problem The Dark Forest Death's End Other Books Ball Lightning (forthcoming)

The Three-Body Problem

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Devin Scillian

Michael Gillick

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Day One I swam around my bowl. Day Two I swam around my bowl. Twice. And so it goes in this tell-all tale from a goldfish. With his bowl to himself and his simple routine, Goldfish loves his life..until one day... When assorted intruders including a hyperactive bubbler, a grime-eating snail, a pair of amorous guppies, and a really crabby crab invade his personal space and bowl, Goldfish is put out, to say the least. He wants none of it, preferring his former peace and quiet and solitude. But time away from his new companions gives him a chance to rethink the pros and cons of a solitary life. And discover what he's been missing. Devin Scillian is an award-winning author and Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist. He has written more than 10 books with Sleeping Bear Press, including the bestselling A is for America: An American Alphabet and Brewster the Rooster. Devin lives in Michigan and anchors the news for WDIV-TV in Detroit. Early in his career Tim Bowers worked for Hallmark Cards, helping to launch the Shoebox Greetings card line. He has illustrated more than 25 children's books, garnering such awards as the Chicago Public Library's "Best of the Best" list. He also illustrated the widely popular First Dog. Tim lives in Granville, Ohio.

Memoirs of a Goldfish

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Maggie Rudy

Has a sticker on the inside, cover as withdrawn 

Smartly dressed mice give sage advice on all elements of proper pet care in this photographic picture book.

Who hasn't yearned for the perfect pet? The mice in this book--hand-sewn and inhabiting enchanting, diorama-style scenes--know all about critter care, and they're here to share wise words about choosing and keeping animal companions.

Whimsical images of the mice with their own petite pets, including bumblebees, ladybugs, and butterflies, complement the warm humor of this extraordinary picture book that's truly like no other!

I Wish I Had a Pet

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Helen Cowcher

Antarctica

Describes the daily activities and dangers shared by the penguins and other animal inhabitants of Antarctica.

Antartida

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Michael J. Pellowski

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Scare up some blood-curdling, chilling chuckles! Your favorite little monsters will love these, because here come some comic creature features--and Dracula, Frankenstein, King Kong, pus robots, werewolves and mad scientists are all turning up for the fun. Howl with laughter over this: What's the tallest building in Transylvania? The Vampire State Building. Where do you gas up a monster truck? A villain station. What would you get if you crossed a monster with a grand piano? A Frankensteinway. What does King Kong wear when he barbecues ribs? An ape-ron. And, don't forget everyone's favorite freezing fiend: What does the Abominable Snowman do when people wave at him? He gives them the cold shoulder! With cool cartoony illustrations, too.

Monster Jokes

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John C. Vanden-Heuvel

Volume 01 of Web Design for Babies

It's never too early to be standards compliant! Show your little ones HTML markup code along with letter forms to get them started on the visual patterns and symbols that make up the essential building blocks of the Web. The first in a three-volume set, originally designed by a NYC Web Designer for his baby, this beautiful book is a fun and colorful introduction to the world of web design for babies.

HTML for Babies

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Jane Harper

"Who really killed the Hadler family? Luke Hadler turns a gun on his wife and child, then himself. The farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily. If one of their own broke under the strain, well ... When Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk returns to Kiewarra for the funerals, he is loath to confront the people who rejected him twenty years earlier. But when his investigative skills are called on, the facts of the Hadler case start to make him doubt this murder-suicide charge. And as Falk probes deeper into the killings, old wounds are reopened. For Falk and his childhood friend Luke shared a secret ... A secret Falk thought long-buried ... A secret which Luke's death starts to bring to the surface ..." --

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