Diane Jeffrey

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Rhode Island

The Appeal

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Vint Virga

What Animals Can Teach Us about Being Human

As profiled in the New York Times Magazine...

Based on the author's twenty-five years of experience as a veterinarian and veterinary behaviorist, The Soul of All Living Creatures delves into the inner lives of animals - from whales, wolves, and leopards to mice, dogs, and cats - and explores the relationships we forge with them.
 
As an emergency room clinician four years out of veterinary school, Dr. Vint Virga had a life-changing experience: he witnessed the power of simple human contact and compassion to affect the recovery of a dog struggling to survive after being hit by a car.  Observing firsthand the remarkably strong connection between humans and animals inspired him to explore the world from the viewpoint of animals and taught him to respect the kinship that connects us.

With The Soul of All Living Creatures, Virga draws from his decades in veterinary practice to reveal how, by striving to perceive the world as animals do, we can enrich our own appreciation of life, enhance our character, nurture our relationships, improve our communication with others, reorder our values, and deepen our grasp of spirituality.  Virga discerningly illuminates basic traits shared by both humans and animals and makes animal behavior meaningful, relevant, and easy to understand.  Insightful and eloquent, The Soul of All Living Creatures offers an intimate journey into the lives of our fellow creatures and a thought-provoking promise of what we can learn from spending time with them.

The Soul of All Living Creatures

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Shiya Ribowsky

Tom Shachtman

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Behind the Scenes at the World's Largest Medical Examiner's Office

A city with eight million people has eight million ways to die

For fifteen years, Shiya Ribowsky worked as a medicolegal investigator in New York City's medical examiner's office--the largest, most sophisticated organization of its kind in the world. Utilizing his background in medicine, he led the investigations of more than eight thousand individual deaths, becoming a key figure in some of New York's most bizarre death cases and eventually taking charge of the largest forensic investigation ever attempted: identifying the dead in the aftermath of the September 11 tragedies.

Now, in this mesmerizing book, Ribowsky pulls back the curtain on the New York City's medical examiner's office, giving an enthralling, never-before-seen glimpse into death and the city. Born and raised in New York City's orthodox Jewish community, Ribowsky seems an unlikely candidate for this macabre profession. Nevertheless he has forsaken a promising career of medical work with the living, descending instead into the realm of the dead, enticed by the challenge of confronting death on a daily basis. Taking you through the vermin-infested Bowery flophouses and posh Upper East Side apartments of the city's dead, Ribowsky explores in gruesome detail the skeletons that hang in the Big Apple's closets. Combing through the autopsy room, he also exposes the grim secrets that only a scalpel and a dead body can tell and explains how forensic investigation does not merely solve crimes--it saves lives.

But it is in the aftermath of September 11 that the ME's office is handed its biggest challenge: to identify as many of the fallen as possible. With poignant descriptions, Ribowsky provides a dramatic account of the office's diligent and unflappable work with the families of the victims, helping them emerge from the ashes of this tragedy while displaying the strength, grit, intelligence, and compassion that Americans expect from true New Yorkers.

At once compelling and heartbreaking, Dead Center is a story of New York unlike any other, blending the haunting with the sublime, while painting a striking portrait of death (and life) in the city that never sleeps.

Dead Center

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Reader's Digest Editors

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Collects more than six hundred documented reports of incredible occurrences witnessed or experienced, over the past two hundred years, by ordinary people

Mysteries of the Unexplained

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Ron LeGrand

Robert Allen

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Make Fast Cash with No Money, Credit, or Previous Experience

How to Be a Quick Turn Real Estate Millionaire

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James Patterson

Candice Fox

The Instant #1 Bestseller What are the chances that convicted killer Sam Blue is innocent of the serial murders of three young women? Determined to clear his name, no matter the cost to her career, Detective Harriet Blue accepts a risky reassignment to a remote town where a diary found on the roadside reveals a murderous plan. And the first killing, shortly after her arrival, suggests that the clock is already ticking. Meanwhile, back in the city, a young woman holds the key to crack Harriet's brother's case wide open. If only she could escape the madmen holding her hostage.

Fifty Fifty

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Audrey Johns

Lose weight by eating guilt-free, low-calorie, unprocessed versions of all your favorite foods, with this helpful, accessible diet and cookbook—featuring more than 130 clean eating recipes and gorgeous full-color photos—from the popular weight loss blogger who lost 150 pounds in eleven months. At 275 pounds, Audrey Johns was unhealthy and unhappy—until the day she vowed to give up the “fake food” and taught herself to cook her favorites from scratch. Within eleven months, Audrey mastered the kitchen, began to take better care of herself, and lost more than 150 pounds—over half her body weight. Now, Audrey shares her story, insights, and clean eating recipes to help you slim down. Lose Weight by Eating includes more than 130 mouthwatering recipes for family favorites, including pasta, scones, fried chicken, nachos, meatloaf, and cookies—all bursting with flavor and fewer than 500 calories per serving. Most recipes use simple and inexpensive smart swaps and are full of hidden vegetables that keep you feeling fuller longer, and all are picky-kid-friendly and husband-approved. Imagine losing eight to sixteen pounds the first week and fifteen to twenty-five pounds a month eating skinny pizzas with only 125 calories per slice or 150-calorie cheesecake bars! Lose Weight by Eating lets you enjoy these delights and more, such as “Jelly Doughnut” French Toast, California Club Pizza, Whole Roasted Chicken with Potatoes and Onions, Veggie Packed Lasagna, Cheddar Stuffed Turkey Burgers, Chocolate Peanut Butter Dip with Fruit, and Skinny Cheesecake with Raspberry Drizzle. Audrey also provides a handy six-week meal plan and weight loss tips to keep you motivated. Lose Weight by Eating is all about making the naughty nice. Giving your favorite foods a delicious, healthy makeover, you can eat what you love every day—and still shed those unwanted pounds.

Lose Weight by Eating

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Mandy Ingber

28 Days to the Ultimate Mind-Body Makeover

Provides a handbook to a twenty-eight day yoga techniques program, designed to enliven both the mind and body, and includes effective workouts, eating guidelines, and daily affirmations.

Yogalosophy

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Freida McFadden

An addictive psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist that's burning up Instagram, Freida McFadden's The Housemaid is perfect for fans of Ruth Ware, Lisa Jewell, and Verity.



"Welcome to the family," Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I'll soon learn that the Winchesters' secrets are far more dangerous than my own...



Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor.



I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew's handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it's hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina's life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband.



I only try on one of Nina's pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it's like. But she soon finds out... and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it's far too late.



But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don't know who I really am.



They don't know what I'm capable of...

The Housemaid

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B. A. Paris

A Novel

With Behind Closed Doors, New York Times bestselling author B. A. Paris took the psychological thriller to shocking new heights. Now she'll hold you captive with THE PRISONER--a stunning new thriller about one woman wed into a family with deadly intentions.

Amelie has always been a survivor, from losing her parents as a child in Paris to making it on her own in London. As she builds a life for herself, she is swept up into a glamorous lifestyle where she married the handsome billionaire Ned Hawthorne.

But then, Amelie wakes up in a pitch-black room, not knowing where she is. Why has she been taken? Who are her mysterious captors? And why does she soon feel safer here, imprisoned, than she had begun to feel with her husband Ned?

In the vein of Behind Closed Doors and The Therapist, multimillion-copy bestseller B. A. Paris is back with a gripping new suspense novel.

The Prisoner

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Lucy Mead

A perfect gift book with humorous, inspiring, heartwarming and always loving words about that most special of women -- mothers! Includes anecdotes, proverbs, quotes -- all both funny and profound.

Mothers Are Special

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Patrick Regan

Jonathan Chester

A Penguin's Guide to a Happy Life

Award-winning nature photographer Chester captures the essence of the Antarctic's most popular residents to illustrate the similarities between penguins' lives and and those of people.

Flipping Brilliant

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Joyce Vollmer Brown

Giant-sized gratitude is compressed in this compact gift book filled with affirmations for the unsung hero of the family. Presented with vibrant, original art throughout, this little collection expresses a rainbow of wise, warm, and witty compliments. Joyce Vollmer Brown, author of the best-seller You Go, Graduate, has a true gift for expressing a bounty of meaning with a flair that will bring a smile and perhaps a tear to the reader. A natural for Mother's Day with year-round appeal, A Little Book of Thanks--For Mom is a natural purchase choice for children of all ages.

A Little Book of Thanks--For Mom

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Robert Galbraith

Career of Evil is the third in the highly acclaimed series featuring private detective Cormoran Strike and his assistant Robin Ellacott. When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible--and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality. With the police focusing on one of the suspects, Strike and Robin delve into the dark and twisted worlds of the other three men. But as more horrendous acts occur, time is running out for the two of them...

Career of Evil

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Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

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Robert D. Keppel

William J. Birnes

Robert Keppel

Explores the criminal patterns and motives of serial killers, from the Lonely Hearts Killer of the 1950s to such infamous figures as Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and John Wayne Gacy. Reissue.

Signature Killers

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Electives

Mosby Medical Encyclopedia 

Bruce Leininger

Andrea Leininger

Ken Gross

The Reincarnation of a World War II Fighter Pilot

The parents of James Leininger were first puzzled and then disturbed when their two-year-old son began screaming out chilling phrases during recurrent nightmares, such as, "Plane on fire! Little man can't get out!" The centerpiece of a loving family of three, James was a happy, playful toddler who had only just begun stringing together sentences. Determined to understand what was happening to their son, Bruce and Andrea set off on a journey of discovery that was to rock them to their core. For the more they researched the arcane comments and fragmented details little James revealed, the more they were drawn inescapably to a shocking conclusion: that James was reliving the life of James Huston, a World War II fighter pilot who was killed in the battle for Iwo Jima-- over sixty years ago! Through painstaking research and conversations with war veterans and surviving members of James Huston's family, Bruce and Andrea were forced to confront their skepticism and reexamine their entire belief system. In the process, they not only managed to solve the mystery of their son's statements. They also uncovered revelations about James Huston's life and wartime experiences that could finally bring peace and healing to his loved ones, decades after his death. This book features stunning drawings from James Leininger illustrating his unshakable memories, photos that portray the eerie resemblance between young James and the adult James Huston, and a foreword from world-renowned past lives expert Carol Bowman. In SOUL SURVIVOR, readers will come to know and believe in the special child who harbors the soul of a man who died in 1945.

Soul Survivor

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Jodi Picoult

A man's attempt to sell a piece of land and the resulting Abenaki tribe's protest that it is a sacred burial ground spurs an investigation by ghost hunter Ross Wakeman, who discovers a long-hidden murder haunting a small Vermont town.

Second Glance

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J. P. Delaney

In this twisty psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Before, an actress plays both sides of a murder investigation. "[A] rich, nuanced, highly literary take on the Gone Girl theme."--Booklist (starred review) Claire Wright is desperate. A British drama student in New York without a green card, she takes the only job she can get: working for a firm of divorce lawyers, posing as an easy pickup in hotel bars to entrap straying husbands. But then the game changes. When one of her targets becomes the suspect in a murder investigation, the police ask Claire to use her acting chops to lure him into a confession. From the start, she questions the part she's being asked to play: Is Patrick Fogler a killer? Or is there more to this setup than she's being told? Claire will soon realize she is playing the deadliest role of her life. Praise for Believe Me "For readers who enjoyed the paranoia factor in A. J. Finn's The Woman in the Window or the unreliable narrator of Paula Hawkins's The Girl on the Train."--Library Journal "Produces a bobsled run's worth of twists." --Publishers Weekly "An intense, stylish psychological thriller."--Good Housekeeping "A dark and haunting thriller . . . A superb evocation of conflicted emotions, this never lets you guess what's coming next."--Daily Mail "I so enjoyed it--what a twisty, exciting read."--Sabine Durrant, author of Lie With Me

Believe Me

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Saleem Ahmed

Updated Edition

Want to outsmart, outwit, and outplay your Scrabble® opponents? Using the completely revised and updated The Scrabble® Word-Building Book, you can! This essential strategy guide shows you how to build on your opponents' words and become a master of this classic game. For novice players and expert wordsmiths alike, this helpful reference includes:

 * A handy list of the 94 two-letter words sure to pile on the points
 * Over 800 three-letter words -- 550 of which can be formed from two-letter words
 * All eight-letter words that can be formed from seven-letter words
 * Every word up to seven letters you can play!


To increase your word-building power and achieve the highest score, keep The Scrabble® Word-Building Book at your fingertips -- and beat your opponent every time!

The Scrabble Word-Building Book

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Merriam-Webster Editors

English

The book that millions of SCRABBLE players consider the only necessary resource. - More than 100,000 playable two-to-eight-letter words including more than 5,000 newly added entries. - Includes variant spellings with expanded coverage of Canadian and British words. - Updated to include new vocabulary such as fracking, hashtag, and selfie - Main entries include a brief definition, a part-of-speech label, and inflected forms for fast, easy word validation - Ideal for recreational and school use

The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary

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Sterling Publishing Company Staff

Includes 2- and 4-player scoresheets, advanced tile-tracking grids, and players' pocket word lists.

Scrabble Score and Tile Tracker

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Tony Mendoza

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Photographer's Memoir

A new edition of the moving, photographic story of the photographer and his relationship with his self-possessed, lovable cat, Ernie, features never-before-published pictures and a few more private thoughts from Ernie himself.

Ernie

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Cindy D’Angelos

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